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Although I wrote as an anthropologist rather than as a professional historian, I think history matters. It is also important to understand how an why these systems develop and extend their sway over people, and I located the rationale in the ways power and the economy sustain and drive each other on.

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To understand how caste works concretely, one must, however, look beyond kinship organization and ritual idiom to the political economy of caste.

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In order to understand what the world would become, we must first know what it was.

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