Social Institutions Among the Hindus |
Contents
PREFACE | 7 |
ENDURING GROUP ORGANIZATIONS | 22 |
DOMESTIC DESIGN AND SACRAMENTAL SANCTIONS | 41 |
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arrangement artha Aryan Aryan community asrama Bengal birth Bombay Brahma Brahmin caste organisation caste status caste structure caste system century child marriages concept considerations culture custom D. K. Karve Dāsa dasyus depressed classes dharma Dharmaśāstras disabilities distinct early economic endogamous Gautama girl gotra groups hermit higher castes Hindu Hindu society household human ideology important increasingly India Indian society individual Indra injunctions instance interests joint family kāma Kautilya king Kṣatriya large number living Mahābhārata Mahatma Gandhi Manu married matters means mixed castes Moslems Muslims Mysore Nāgas natives numerous outgroups Pāṇini parents pleasures political population practice prevalent privileges problem prohibited Punjab racial Raja Rammohun Roy Rajputs Rāmānuja recognised regard religious Rgveda rites rituals rôle sacrament Samāj Samkara Sati scriptural smṛti social institutions social reform stage Sūdra survived tions tradition tribes twice-born units urbanisation Vaisya Varna Vātsyāyana Vedic literature Vedic period widows wife woman women zealously