Conflating caste with varna: The biggest confusion that needs urgent shredding
The word Varna which is a Sanskrit word denoting 4 categories namely Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra is very popular both in the serious academic literature and popular semi-academic gossip about Indian social system. The English word caste is quite often used as a translation for the Sanskrit word Varna. As a result, at many …
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