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