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This document summarizes an article that analyzes stratification in ancient India using evidence from Buddhist sources and early inscriptions, which have been largely ignored compared to Brahmanical texts. The author argues that Buddhist literature and early inscriptions from 500 BC to 2nd century AD provide a more empirical view of social categories in ancient India, rather than the ideological view presented in later Brahmanical texts. Relying on these alternative sources can provide a better understandin
- Author
- Umang Kumar
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- EN