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The Inter-Relations of Castes and Ethnic Groups in Nepal1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Christoph Von Fürer-Haimendorf
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The system of endogamous castes arranged in a hierarchic order is a form of social structure characteristic of India and certain neighbouring countries affected by the influence of Hinduism. Its origin and historic development is the subject of a large literature based primarily on Sanskrit sources stemming from ancient and medieval times. Our knowledge of Indian social life in those times is due almost entirely to the work of Sanskrit scholars, and studies of the phenomenon of caste from a sociological point of view, such as that of Max Weber, remained few in numbers compared to the volume of treatises viewing the system in a purely historical perspective.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , February 1957 , pp. 243 - 253
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1957

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The fieldwork on which this article is based was greatly facilitated by a generous grant from the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

References

page 245 note 1 An alternative spelling of this caste-name is ‘Guwaju’, and I have used this in previous publications; the spelling ‘Gubhaju’ however, has the advantage of corresponding more closely to the Newari spelling.

page 246 note 1

page 252 note 1 Dumont, L., Hierarchie et alliance. Notes comparatives sur la parente dans I'Inde du Sud. Thèse complémentaire pour le Doctorat-ès-lettres présentée à la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université de Paris, Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1956, 15,Google Scholar 16.