Brij Mohan <br/><br/>
India's new caste war: the archaeology of a perpetual conflict 

 -  2007 
 - p.24-33. 
 - Jan 
<br/><br/> Caste as a system of stratified inequality has globally survived in different forms since times immemorial. Its functionality on the subcontinent, however, is sustained by a mythologised social reality that runs contrary to the ideals of a secular democracy. This article seeks to theorise caste as a conceptual anomaly and a source of perenial strife - ascribed status, discontent and conflict - that pervade a civilisational crisis at the crossroads of progress. - Reproduced. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Caste - India<br/>Caste