I have been wanting to read “The Hollow Crown, Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom” by Nicholas Dirk - that’s somewhat related. He addresses caste more directly

I have been wanting to read “The Hollow Crown, Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom” by Nicholas Dirk - that’s somewhat related. He addresses caste more directly in a later book “Castes of Mind” - but I haven’t read that one either.