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 castesprofoundly  relies  although self admittedly  on  content from a Evangelical Christian  missionarys   b British colonial officials and c heresay  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       Deletion of   content from talk page  Sitush Do not delete contributions of other editors from talk pages as you have  done here and on other talk page as well