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Discuss the ethnography India’s Changing Villages: Human Factors in Community Development.

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Introduction India’s Changing Villages: Human Factors in Community Development is a collection of ethnographic essays edited by M.N. Srinivas. This important work examines how Indian villages have undergone change during and after India’s independence, with a focus on the human and cultural dimensions of development. The ethnography provides insights into the interaction between tradition and […]

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With reference to M.N. Srinivas’s work outline the ritual idiom of the Coorgs.

Introduction M.N. Srinivas is one of India’s most influential sociologists and anthropologists. His ethnographic work on the Coorgs (also known as Kodavas) of Karnataka is presented in his book “Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India”. Through this study, he developed and explained the concept of ritual idiom, which refers to how ritual