Who Were the Shudras? : A Historical Enquiry into Power, Identity and Society
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
9376462734
ISBN-13
9789376462735
Publisher
Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd
Imprint
Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 5th, 2026
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
248 grams
Product Classification:
Asian historySociology & anthropologySociology and anthropologyAsian history
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Who Were The Shudras presents a bold and revisionist inquiry into one of the most fundamental questions of Indian social history: the origins and status of the Shudras within the Indo-Aryan social order. The book addresses two central questions, who the Shudras were, and how they came to occupy the position of the fourth Varna. Drawing on extensive research, it advances a series of striking conclusions. It argues that the Shudras were originally one of the Aryan communities of the Solar race, and that early Indo-Aryan society recognized only three Varnas, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaishyas. Far from being a separate category, the Shudras were initially part of the Kshatriya Varna.
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