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    <title>The idea of natural inequality and other essays</title>
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    <namePart>Beteille, Andre.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2003</dateIssued>
    <edition>Second edition</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xii, 241 pages ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>In the Indian context.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Acknowledgements		xiii	
Introduction		1	(6)
The Idea of Natural Inequality		7	(28)
Homo Hierarchicus, Homo Equalis		35	(22)
Harmonic and Disharmonic Social Systems		57	(26)
The Backward Classes and the New Social Order		83	(47)
The Pursuit of Equality and the Indian University		130	(38)
Equality of Opportunity		168	(30)
Individualism and the Persistence of Collective Identities		198	(29)
Equality of Opportunity and the Equal Distribution of Benefits		227	(22)
Index</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Andre Beteille.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Equality</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Social change</topic>
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  <subject>
    <geographic>India</geographic>
    <topic>Social conditions</topic>
    <temporal>1947-</temporal>
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