Caste in India: The Facts and the System
Description of the caste system and its rules; varṇa in Vedic and later texts; comparison with Iranian, Greek and Roman social institutions; theory of origins.
- Language
- English
- Date
- 1847–1928 CE
- Authors
- Émile Senart, E. Denison Ross
- Extent
- 825 passages, 55,384 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · English tr. by E. D. Ross, London: Methuen 1930 (French original: Les castes dans l'Inde, Paris 1896); scan… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Émile Senart †1928; E. Denison Ross †1940); published…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 16 parts
- c2 Contents — 7 parts
- c3 Translator's Note — 6 parts
- c4 Author's Note — 6 parts
- c5 Preface — 41 parts
- c6 Part I: The Present — 9 parts
- c7 Part II: The Past — 6 parts
- c8 Part III: Origins — 8 parts