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On Some Castes and Caste-origins in Sylhet

By K. M. Gupta

Vol. 7 · No. 4December - 1931pp. 716–726English

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  • “The bulk of the sources of information about castes is of the nature of tradition, The epigraphic records constitute the most authentic evidence, but their number is very few and the references contained therein are indirect.”
  • “Castes and sub-castes are still in the process of formation, and confusion of castes is but a normal though slow phenomenon of present day social life.”
  • “The conclusion 15 irresistible that the emperors of Kamardipa pursued a systematic policy एव colonising Sylhet with Nagara Brahmanas and thereby introducing orthodox Hinduism? in the outlying parts of the empire.”

Works cited in this article

  1. Epigraphia Indica
  2. Indian Antiquary
  3. Smith’s Early History of India (4th Edition)
  4. People of India by Risley
  5. Census Report

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Vol. 7 · No. 4
629–634Mahanitakam – Our Text635–650Notes on the Nagarjunakonda Inscriptions651–654Kulasekhara Alvar and His DateK. G. Sesha Aiyar655–679Early Visnuism and Narayaniya WorshipMrinal Das Gupta679–689King Nanyadeva of MithilaRamesh Chandra Majumdar683–702The Sea and Land Travels of a Buddhist Sadhu in the Sixteenth CenturyGiuseppe Tucci689–702The Coins and Weights in Ancient IndiaA. K. Sarkar703–708Fire-Arms in Ancient IndiaJogesh Chandra Roy703–709Finger-posts of Bengal HistoryBijoy Nath Sarkar709–715Studies in the KautilyaNarendra Nath Law716–726On Some Castes and Caste-origins in SylhetK. M. GuptaCurrent article727–734The Chando-Vedanga of PingalaMano Mohan Ghosh735–737On the origin of the Aryan word IstakaJean Przyluski737–740An Inscription of Asoka discovered at YerragudiDineshchandra Sircar740–741Bodhichitta-vivarna of NagarjunaP. C. Bagchi741–742On the antiquity of the name "Kasthamandapa" or "Kathmandu"P. C. Bagchi743–746Identification of BrahmaputraK. M. Gupta746–747MeradaLakshmi Narayan Harichandan Jagadeb747–750Origin of the Lotus-CapitalAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy750The Gudimallam LingamAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy751–753GopalaJogendra Chandra Ghosh753–756Early Capital of the Gurjara Pratiharas of MahodayaJogendra Chandra Ghosh757–759The St. Thomas Tradition and a Recent Discovery in TravancoreC. S. Srinivasachari760–768ReviewsSushil Kumar De, Batakrishna Ghosh, D. Bhattacharya769–775Select Contents of Oriental Journals776–778Obituary Notice: Pandit R. D. BanerjiRamaprasad Chanda779–782Bibliographical Notes

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