Socio-Cultural Stratification of India

Abstract

Most of the research on any aspect of Indian culture or society considers holistic India as a single cultural unit and is based on mere observations and intuitive assumption and not based on empirical investigation. This paper is an attempt to create an understanding that India is a multicultural, multilingual and multiethnic society and that the usage of nation as a surrogate for culture is in-appropriate for countries like India with heterogeneous cultures. In this research an attempt is also made to compare the cultural values within the various regions of India.