How do Louis Dumont and André Beteille differ in their approaches in understanding caste system in India? Explain. (Answer in 150 words)

- How do Louis Dumont and André Beteille differ in their approaches in understanding caste system in India? Explain. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
Dumont explains caste by its ideas, Beteille by the resources people hold.
Body
1. How each approaches caste: In Homo Hierarchicus Dumont treats caste as an ideology turning on the opposition of pure and impure, from which endogamy, commensality and untouchability follow; hierarchy encompasses power, so status stands above it. Beteille, in Caste, Class and Power, works from Sripuram in Tanjore and treats caste as one dimension of stratification beside class and power.
2. The axes on which they differ: Ideology against institution: Dumont asks what caste means, Beteille what it distributes. Text against field: Brahmanical sources against a village record of land and office. Unity against variation: one all-India structure against a system differing by region. Fixity against change: Dumont's system is present or absent, while Beteille found caste, class and power at Sripuram coming apart under land reform and elections.
3. What the difference decides about caste: Whether caste can change and remain caste: for Dumont the only change is its end, for Beteille it always changed.
Conclusion
The ideology and the land register are both real; neither reading is dispensable.