The social worth of scribes: Brahmins, Kāyasthas and the social order in early modern India
Often migrants into western India as servants of the Bahmani kings and Deccan Sultanate states, Maratha kāyasthas were newcomers into local societies whose Brahmin communities had hitherto commanded more exclusive possession of scribal and literate skills. From the mid-fifteenth century, periodic bu...
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SAGE Publications
2010
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