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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (June 2021)
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There are things in this book I don't agree with (like the use of the Kosovo war as an example of religious war - a war which was anything but religion related war; his opinion on agnosticism - agnostics in reality are not poor fence sitters as he depicts them, they just don't care; etc.). However, the interesting believer scale and the elegance of the last section are enough to earn it a place in the list of the greater books I have ever read. Being a very jumpy reader (I read a chapter in one
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