“To understand how caste works concretely, one must, however, look beyond kinship organization and ritual idiom to the political economy of caste.”
Source: Europe and the People Without History, 1982, Chapter 2, The World in 1400, p. 46.
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“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.”
Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

ஜாதி மதங்களைப் பாரோம் -
உயர் ஜன்மம்இத் தேசத்தில் எய்தின ராயின்
வேதிய ராயினும் ஒன்றே -
அன்றி வேறு குலத்தின ராயினும் ஒன்றே
As quoted in Freedom Fighters of India, Vol. 3, Lion M. G. Agrawal (2008), "Subramaniya Bharathi", p. 235

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

"Not a Preface, but a Word of Thanks," foreword to Unfinished Journey by Yehudi Menuhin (1977).

Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past

Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971).

“Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries.”
On the Methods and Tendencies of Physical Investigation, p. 7.
Scientific addresses (1870)