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Relationship of Caste's Groups in Indian Rural Community
Dragoljub Nešić
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The author discusses the complex social structure of the Indian village, whose
base is the caste system. The principle of caste association is complemented will,
the principle of village association and they interweave. Generally speaking, one
can not look ai the reality of the Indian village by our rules of logic. In every
village the definite caste dominates, but this domination does not depend only
upon the place of that caste in the social rank scale but is conditioned also by its
number in the frame of the given village community. The relationship of different
groups, especially of those lowest s. c. untouched, with higher ones take place
through the djadjman system. On the one hand the djadjman has characteristics ot
a patron and a client, and on the other of a kamin, his social and economic
pertinence. Djadjman and kamin, or patron and client, are in a relationship of some
sort of socio-economic interdependence, of an organized exchange in natural frames,
but which implies exploitation, consequently class relations. One can ask does this
vertical connection thwart the manifestation o! class struggle? Social clashes in
India generally are softened by the tradition and religious conceptions. But it
would be difficult to state that caste grouping, distribution of functions in the
frame of the society and vertical connection which weakens the class cohesion,
eliminate die class contrarieties within the village community and the society
generally. These are the relationships of an economic and social subordination and
though specific they can be subjected under some general norms of the social
structure.
In the romantic turn to the past during the liberation war against colonizators
Indians leaders had seen in the primitive village caste democracy the base for the
construction of the modern society. Gandhy’s conception of the »Village Swaray«
has been established just on this fact. But it is necessary to take into consideration
an another evaluation according to which this is an oligarchic-aristocratic system,
that conservs the »stability in the backwardness«, so the traditional, inert structure which resists changes and causes many troubles to the Indian society.
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Hrčak ID:
118556
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Datum izdavanja:
20.3.1967.
Posjeta: 748 *