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Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste by Gail Omvedt

Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste

Gail Omvedt

316 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

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This book is an historical survey of Buddhism in India and shows how over a period of 2500 years, Buddhism has been engaged in a struggle against caste-hierarchy. It has challenged Brahmanism, the main exploitative system of traditional Indian soc...

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