varna and jati

[Stephens]

----- Original Message -----
From: Samar Abbas <abbas at IOPB.RES.IN>
To: <INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK>
Sent: 21 May, 1999 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: varna and jati


> The term Dalit now
> occurs in some academic literature in political science. Indologists would
> still use other terms (like `Dravidian', `Kolarian', `Mundari') in
> preference to Dalit (since the term Dalit did not exist in classical
> India).


Would not Dravidian mean the Dravidian people as a whole and not just the
Dalits?

Sujatha