European Caste System
Book Summary: Western Foundations of the Caste System- V
Whereas the idea of a Hindu, Vedic or Brahminical people goes back at least to the early eighteenth century, the Dravidians and the AIT are ... Read More
Book Summary: Western Foundations of the Caste System- IV
Given its apparent lack of structure, what kept this religion together and prevented it from falling apart? This issue was of importance to Christian missionaries ... Read More
Book Summary: Western Foundations of the Caste System- III
Today, the discussion on caste remains constrained by Christian theological thinking, which created the story of religion in India and its decay in the hands ... Read More
Book Summary: Western Foundations of the Caste System- I
Balagangadhara proposes that, the caste system, the phenomenon constructed by the West, is an experiential entity only to the West and not to Indians. In ... Read More
Book Review: Western Foundations of the Caste System
The editors disbelieve the claim that the caste system was devised by self-serving Brahmans. How could, they ask, a small number of Brahmans be so ... Read More