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Examine the impact of Buddhism and Islam on the Hindu society.

  • UPSC 1986
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Both Buddhism and Islam confronted Hindu society with an egalitarian alternative to worth ranked by birth, and both reshaped it. To examine that claim is to ask at which level the change registered. The evidence shows a consistent asymmetry: Hindu society conceded content, not structure.

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  • What Buddhism left behind in Hindu practice
  • What Islam changed
  • The paradox: caste crosses the boundary
  • Examining the limits
  • Conclusion

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