... their information from Brahman priests; and therefore received a biased view of life in India. Even in the Dharmashastras (Law Books), a literary source, there are biased views due to the Brahman authors. They helped portray a rigid caste system that was followed strictly by all Indians; however, the caste system was, in actuality, quite flexible and there were variations within it. (Thapar, p 18 ... . That is why we must bring in texts of all types, both literary and historical, in order to get a more accurate portrayal of the history of South Asia. "Evidence from contemporary inscripti...

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... shared a territory of factual relevance: i.e. facts were facts and sometimes took the shape of extreme circumstances verging on wonders. It does look like a paradox, but in the early history of contemporary Bulgarian literature fiction seems to have been the functional link between the religious tract and the secular nonfiction. The latter appeared firstly through periodicals, but in the 1850s the book ... , say, of education or morality. The patriarchal quality of the Bulgarian ethnic society ran in a somewhat parallel manner to the Victorian middle-class patriarchalism. Small wonder, t...

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