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Interrogating Caste biomedical engineering ’ Sunday Observer ' theAuthor: Gupta, Dipankar Brand: Penguin Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 300 Release Date: 01 12 2000 Details: The caste system has conventionally been perceived by scholars as a hierarchy based on the binary opposition of purity and pollution. Challenging this position, leading sociologist Dipankar Gupta argues that any notion of a fixed hierarchy is arbitrary and valid only from the perspective of the individual castes. The idea of difference, and