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Question
Did British colonial powers invent the Indian caste system?
Position4 of 5

British colonial powers disseminated the caste system

This position holds that British colonial powers did not invent India's caste system but disseminated it, facilitating its wider adoption across Hindu society. It argues that British administrators' sweeping academic generalisations about caste helped spread and entrench it more broadly.

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  1. Academic generalizations helped the adoption of the caste system
    It was due to the British attempts to group Hindus together that the caste system expanded across Indian society.