The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c17.4

Language: English

c17.4

what makes caste in Weber's view a uniquely Indian or Hindu phenomenon is not hierarchy underwritten by the sanction of pollution, but its tie-in with the brahmanic karma doctrine of retribution, the most consistent theodicy ever produced, as he puts it.⁷

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