The Caste System of India and Louis Dumont's View

We talked on the Indian caste system, which has attracted much ire in the modern age, and is on its way out. The edition of the caste system that we have witnessed in the last two millenniums, involving contempt for a certain class of people called 'shudras', and keeping them segregated, is without doubt something that needs to  be discarded. However, its deeper understanding is to be sought. Eminent French sociologist  Louis Dumont's work Homo Hierarchus is a book worth reading for a more holistic understanding of the phenomenon. Today it is quite late, and tomorrow we will discuss some interesting and enticing facts about this social architecture, which ought to be known too. This will promote a deeper understanding of the Indian  civilization.