Sources for Hindu Castes and Sects
A careful reading of this book is revealing ,......a Hindu Pandit - a scholar of Hindu Scripture  ,.......ostensibly credited with  writing an authoritative book on Hindu castes......profoundly  relies ( although self admittedly)  on  content from (a) Evangelical Christian  missionary's   (b) British colonial officials and (c) here-say  on sources he self admittedly will not reveal ,  to  fill his book . The book is majorly bereft of Hindu Scriptural sources . And when they appear , a jumble of source and his own opinion . Other places he showers abuse on various sections and sects - his opinion not scriptural sourcing .