History19th centurySouth Asia (India)low confidence

James Skinner's treatise on India's caste system was based on Sanskrit sources that were later translated into Persian.

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Confirmed by Perso-Indica academic database, Asia Society Museum exhibition text, and historian Rana Safvi's account, all consistent on Skinner's Tashrih al-Aqvam being based on Sanskrit sources translated into Persian.

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