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245		0	_aAnti-Utopia: essential writings of Andre Beteille/ _cedited by Dipankar Gupta
260			_aNew Delhi: _bOxford University Press, _c2005.
300			_aviii, 494 p. ; _c22 cm.
505			_aSTUDYING SOCIETY: Academic judgement and common sense -- Sociology and anthropology: Their relationship in one person<U+2019>s career -- Sociology and common sense -- Religion as a subject for sociology METHODS AND CONCEPTS: Operationalizing the field -- Some observations on the comparative method -- Ideas and interests -- Tribe and peasantry -- Race, caste, and gender SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN INDIA: The dynamics of class, status, and political mobilization -- Caste in contemporary India -- Caste, class, and power -- The future of the backward classes: The competing demands of status and power -- Class and status EQUALITY AND INDIVIDUALISM: The tension between fact and value -- The idea of natural inequality -- The two sources of inequality -- The reproduction of inequality -- Individualism and equality CIVIL SOCIETY AND INSTITUTIONAL WELL-BEING: The conflict of norms and values -- Equality as a right and a policy -- Distributive justice and institutional well-being -- Civil society and the good society APPENDICES -- My two grandmothers -- Interview with Andre Beteille.
650			_aSocial conditions
650			_aSociology
700			_aGupta, Dipankar, ed.
942			_cWB16