Volume One: Continuity and Change

INTRODUCTION
Task, Concepts, and Scope
The Basic Groups and Groupings

FAMILY AND KINSHIP RELATIONS
Family
Family Roles: Boy and Man
Family Roles: Girl and Woman
Family Cycle: Formation and Maintenance
Family Cycle: Growth and Completion
The Wider Ties of Kinship

RELATIONS AMONG PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT JATIS
The Interdependence of Families and Jatis
Criteria for the Ranking of Jatis
The Social Relevance of Ritual Pollution and Purity
Secular Criteria and the Attribution of Jati Rank
Cultural Variations and the Jati Order

RELATIONS WITHIN THE JATI
Alliances and Sections within the Jati
Opposition and Cohesion within the Jati-group
Maintaining the Jati: Leaders and Panchayats
The Uses of Panchayats
Jati Enterprises and Functions

Volume Two: Change and Continuity

VILLAGE, REGION, CIVILIZATION

Village: Separate Hearths and Common Home
The Village: Internal Regulation
The Wider Ties of Village: Centers and Regions
The Villager and Some Perennial Problems of Civilization

RECURRENT CHANGE THROUGH SOCIAL MOBILITY
Jati Mobility
Cultural Adaptations and Models for Mobility
Mobility Tactics: Overcoming External Opposition
Maintaining Internal Cohesion: Fission and Fusion
Modern Means for Jati Improvement: Associations and Federations

RECURRENT CHANGE THROUGH RELIGIOUS AND TRIBAL MOVEMENTS
Social Regrouping through Indigenous Religions
Social Aspects of Introduced Religions: Muslims
Social Aspects of Introduced Religions: Jews, Parsis, Christians
The Accretion of Tribal Peoples
Direction of Tribal Change

CONTINUITIES AND TRENDS
Psychological Forces, Social Processes, and Systemic Shift
Trends

APPENDIX: THE CONCEPTS OF SYSTEM AND OF STRATIFICATION
Uses of the concepts
What kind of system is a "caste system"?