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The Labor Question and the Critique of Caste in Global Intellectual History by Vishal Verma The word 'caste' derived from the Portuguese term casta (status-group), and it was the sixteenth-century Portuguese colonizers who applied it in India "to what they encountered locally as varna and jati" (1). The Portuguese used the term... Continue Reading → by jhiblog on October 27, 2025

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