This volume offers an insightful understanding and analysis of issues related to
social stratification, mobility, village community, urban life, tribal and
peasant movements, gender relations, etc. in India in a broad theoretical and
empirical perspective. Most of the articles are on structure, culture, process
and dialectics in post-independent India. Contours and dynamics of Indian
society in relation to caste, class and power hierarchies have been discussed
with a view to ascertain relative role played by the structural and cultural
factors. The contributors have ably demonstrated the nexus between theoretical
formulations and empirical realities. The differential bearing of theory on
facts and vice versa would encourage and inspire students,