Collected essays Book

Pt. I	Village studies : Rampura
1	The Indian village : myth and reality	3
2	The social system of a Mysore village	40
3	The dominant caste in Rampura	74
4	The study of disputes in an Indian village	93
5	A caste dispute among the washermen of Mysore	100
6	A joint family dispute in a Mysore village	122
7	The case of the potter and the priest	143
Pt. II	Caste and social structure
8	The evolution of caste in India	161
9	Varna and caste	166
10	Some reflections on the nature of caste hierarchy	173
11	Mobility in the caste system	187
12	A note on sanskritization and westernization	200
13	The cohesive role of sanskritization	221
14	The caste system and its future	236
15	Caste in modern India	251
Pt. III	Gender
16	The changing position of Indian women	279
17	Some reflections on dowry	301
18	Culture and human fertility in India	324
Pt. IV	Religion
19	A brief note on Ayyappa, the South Indian deity	349
20	Gandhi's religion	355
21	The social significance of religion in India	362
Pt. V	Cultural and social change in India
22	On living in a revolution	373
23	Nation-building in independent India	388
24	Science, technology and rural development in India	414
25	The dual cultures of independent India	429
26	Changing institutions and values in modern India	443
Pt. VI	Sociology and social anthropology in India
27	Social anthropology and sociology	457
28	Sociology in India and its future	467
29	The development of sociology and social anthropology in India	480
Pt. VII	Method
30	Village studies, participant observation and social science research in India	515
31	The fieldworker and the field : a village in Karnataka	532
32	The observer and the observed in the study of cultures	542
33	The insider versus the outsider in the study of cultures	553
34	Participant observation	561
35	Studying one's own culture : some thoughts	571
36	Indian anthropologists and the study of Indian culture	588
37	Social anthropology and literary sensibility	594
Pt. VIII	Autobiographical essays
38	My Baroda days	609
39	Sociology in Delhi	623
40	Itineraries of an Indian social anthropologist	641
41	Practising social anthropology in India	664
42	All is not lost if your plans go awry	689
	Afterword : an interview with M. N. Srinivas	696