[Y-Indology] Caste in Sanskrit: Ref.s request

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[Y-Indology] Caste in Sanskrit: Ref.s request

 

 

> Interested in the portrayals of caste, untouchability, and

> mention of folks such as funeral ritualists,

> leather workers, drummers in early Sanskrit literature

> through 6-7th centuries CE.

 

Some material can be found in my PhD thesis. See:

 

Aktor, Mikael, _Ritualization and Segregation: The Untouchability Complex in the

scholarly Indian literature on dharma with special reference to Parasarasmrti

and Parasaramadhaviya_, Ph.D. thesis, University of Copenhagen, 1997.

 

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Mikael Aktor, assistant professor, Ph.D.,

Center for the Study of Religions, University of Southern Denmark,

Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.

 

Phone: +45 6550 3318 - +45 3696 9054 (home)

Fax: 6593 2375 - E-mail: aktor