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Caste: Prehistory to 1200: South, Central, and West Asia

By: Sucharita Singha Mukherjee
In: Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia
Edited by: Andrea L. Stanton, Edward Ramsamy, Peter J. Seybolt & Carolyn M. Elliott
Subject:Sociology of Culture, Area Studies (general), Social & Cultural Anthropology
Keywords:Aryans; caste; karma; rituals; Sanskrit; untouchables; Veda

The Sanskrit-speaking Aryans were nomadic pastoralists who came to the Indian subcontinent around 1500 B.C.E. from west-central Asia. They defeated the indigenous population, the Dravidians, and the societal structure of the subcontinent came to be dominated by Aryan norms. Much ...

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  Mukherjee, S. (2012). Caste: prehistory to 1200: south, central, and west asia. In A. L. StantonE. Ramsamy, & P. J. Seybolt (Eds.), Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. IV13-IV14). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n636
  
  Mukherjee, Sucharita Singha. "Caste: Prehistory to 1200: South, Central, and West Asia." In Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia, edited by Stanton, Andrea L., Edward Ramsamy, and Peter J. Seybolt, IV13-IV14. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n636.
  
  Mukherjee, S. 2012. Caste: Prehistory to 1200: South, Central, and West Asia. In: Andrea L. Stanton, Edward Ramsamy and Peter J. Seybolt Editors, 2012. Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. IV13-IV14 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n636> [Accessed 4 Aug 2021].
  
  Mukherjee, Sucharita Singha. "Caste: Prehistory to 1200: South, Central, and West Asia." Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Andrea L. StantonEdward Ramsamy and Peter J. Seybolt. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012, pp. IV13-IV14. SAGE Knowledge. 4 Aug 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n636.
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