[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958) › c9.339 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c9.339 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c9.339 - **Language:** English ### [c9.339](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c9.339) ⁴ Eggeling, \*SBE\*, xii, Introd., p. XIII. Pollution is considered by some sociologists and Sanskritists to be a crucial factor in caste formation, but really it was a consequence of socio-economic developments and not their cause. - [Previous: c9.338](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c9.338) - [Next: c9.340](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c9.340) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c9.339](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c9.339) · Pramāṇa