The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s14.6

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6. This may be helpful in dealing with the occurrence of Hindu and Muslim castes. When too narrowly defined as a specific Hindu phenomenon, the otherwise obvious and justified use of the term "caste" becomes unnecessarily problematic (see Louis Dumont, *Homo Hierarchicus* [Paris, 1966], 255–263, paras. 102, 103.