Chains and Lotus: Slavery, Caste, and the Building of Indian Civilization

The civilisation that taught the world that a single self looks out of every pair of eyes was built and sustained by people it placed below the reach of touch. For more than two thousand years it ranked human beings by birth and bound the lowest to the foulest work — and the philosophy, the temples, and the empires the world still admires could not have stood a day without them. Lotus and Chain te...