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