This is a comprehensive examination of the `varna' system - a classificatory scheme laid out in the classical Hindu Vedic literature and thought to underlie the concept of caste, which continues to exert a powerful and pervasive influence over Indian life.
- ISBN10 0195084985
- ISBN13 9780195084986
- Publish Date 14 April 1994 (first published 20 January 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 424
- Language English