Short notes
Indian Village
Definition
Higher castes = migrants from Bihar, Jharkhand, MP.
Example / case study
- Brahmins (Saryupari, Kanyakubja, etc.) not politically united; factions hostile to each other.
Thinkers
- Yogendra Singh – Sanskritization = cultural camouflage for caste conflict.
- 3. S.C. Dube – Madhya Pradesh (Surajpur & other villages)
- Christophe Jaffrelot — two-step rise of Hindu nationalism: stigmatise an ‘other’ as a common enemy; then unify Hindus across caste, class and region.