“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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Part I, chapter 4.
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ஜாதி மதங்களைப் பாரோம் -
உயர் ஜன்மம்இத் தேசத்தில் எய்தின ராயின்
வேதிய ராயினும் ஒன்றே -
அன்றி வேறு குலத்தின ராயினும் ஒன்றே
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971).
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