Western Foundations of the Caste System

1. Introduction: Caste Studies and the Apocryphal Elephant
Martin Fárek, Dunkin Jalki, Sufiya Pathan, Prakash Shah

2. Caste-Based Reservation and Social Justice in India
S. N. Balagangadhara

3. Are There Caste Atrocities in India? What the Data Can and Cannot Tell Us
Dunkin Jalki, Sufiya Pathan

4. Dissimulating on Caste in British Law
Prakash Shah

5. Were Shramana and Bhakti Movements Against the Caste System?
Martin Fárek

6. A Nation of Tribes and Priests: The Jews and the Immorality of the Caste System
Jakob De Roover

7. The Aryans and the Ancient System of Caste
Marianne Keppens

8. Afterword
Martin Fárek, Dunkin Jalki, Sufiya Pathan, Prakash Shah

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Cultural Studies, Historical Sociology, Ethnicity Studies, Imperialism and Colonialism, Religion and Society