Ethnicity and Mobility (Emerging Ethnic Identity and Social Mobility Among the Waddars of South India)

Chandrashekhar Bhat

Concept Publishing Company, Jun 30, 2008 - Philosophy - 264 pages

India is the home of religion, philosophy and spirituality. Every age, she provides the world with armies of spiritual masters. The beauty of the Indian philosophy is the grand unification of a Metaphysical God who is the Absolute Reality and the substratum of all existence, and a Personal God who is the basis of all morality, ethics and the inspiration to lead a meaningful life. Amongst those Indian philosophers who accepted the separation of mind and body and argued for the existence of the soul, there was considerable dedication to the scientific method and to developing the principles of deductive and inductive logic. As keen observers of nature and the human body, India's early scientist/philosophers studied human sensory organs, analysed dreams, memory and consciousness. The best of them understood dialectics in nature-they understood change, both in quantitative and qualitative terms-they even posited a prototype of the modern atomic theory. The novelty of this book consists of the fact that it introduces the reader to the basic of Indian philosophers and their contribution in Indian philosophy.

Contents

• THE WADDARS ETHNOGRAPHY: 33
• A CASE STUDY: 61
• ETHNICITY AND MOBILITY: 190
• INDEX: 209

About the author

DR. CHANDRASHEKHAR BHAT teaches at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Hyderabad. He is currently at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University cf London, on a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship. His interest and publications are in the areas of social stratification and mobility, social movements, ethnic relations and the weaker sections.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ethnicity and Mobility (Emerging Ethnic Identity and Social Mobility Among the Waddars of South India)
• Author: Chandrashekhar Bhat
• Publisher: Concept Publishing Company, 2008
• Length: 264 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General