Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c14.29
Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c14.29
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¹ "... *pratiloma* is a convenient intellectual device for generating various disapproved categories, assigning them degraded positions, and ideologically explaining and rationalising why so many groups in the caste hierarchy are placed in low or downtrodden positions." S. J. Tambiah, "From Varṇa to Caste through Mixed Unions," in Jack Goody (ed.), *The Character of Kinship*, p. 207.