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on caste outside of India
Pakistan:

Pieter Streefland,
The Sweepers of Slaughterhouse: Conflict and Survival in a Karachi Neighbourhood, Van Gorcum (Assen), 1979.


Sri Lanka:

Nur Yalman,
Under the Bo Tree: Studies in Caste Kinship, and Marriage in the Interior of Ceylon, University of California Press, 1967.

Bryce Ryan,
Caste in Modern Ceylon: The Sinhalese System in Transition, Rutgers University Press, 1953.

Japan:

Michael Weiner (editor),
Japan�s Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity, Routledge, 1997.

Ian Neary,
Political Protest and Social Control in Pre-War Japan: The Origins of Buraku Liberation, Humanities Press international, 1989.

Hiroshi Wagatsuma, "The pariah caste in Japan: history and present self-image,� in
Caste and Race: Comparative Approaches, Little, Brown and Company, 1967.

George De Vos and Hiroshi Wagatsuma,
Japan�s invisible Race: Caste in Culture and Personality, University of California Press, 1966.

Shimazaki Toson,
The Broken Commandment (classic novel), University of Tokyo Press, 1974 (1906).

Africa:

Arthur Tuden and Leonard Plotnicov (editors),
Social Stratification in Africa, The Free Press, 1970.



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