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The view that Hinduism as a religion, or the Hindus as a people, lack a sense of history has been expressed so often as to have become a cliché. Even when scholars have tried to take a more sophisticated as opposed to a clichéd view, the effect has often been to reinforce it.

— Arvind Sharma Arvind Sharma - Hinduism and Its Sense of History (2003)

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The idea is that all varnas are contained in every individual, instead of every individual being comprised within one of the varnas.

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