Caste as British Mischief « Indian Realist

• Caste as British Mischief « Indian Realist

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  • I stumbled upon a nice book recently. Pick it up if you can. It is called “Castes of Mind: Colonialism and Making of British India” and is written by Nicholas D. Burks, an American professor of history and anthropology.

    The author argues that it is actually the British who invented the caste system in India through social engineering and that the caste system as it exists today has absolutely no resemblance to the caste system before the British came to India.