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