Download or read book Caste, Class and Power written by André Béteille and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Caste, Class and Power, André Béteille recounts the gradual transformation of a social system that, till the end of the nineteenth century, was structured primarily on distinctions of caste—between the Brahmins, the middle-level non-Brahmins and the Adi-Dravidas. Based on extensive field study carried out in a South Indian village, the book presents the different ways of studying the themes of caste and class.