V dannoy monografii rassmatrivaetsya stanovlenie kastovoy sistemy s drevneyshikh vremyen do nachala 21 veka. Glavnoe vnimanie obrashchaetsya na eye rol' v obshchestvenno-politicheskoy zhizni Indii, issleduyutsya prichiny stol' dolgovekovogo sushchestvovaniya deleniya indiyskogo obshchestva, kotoroe mozhno nablyudat' i v nashi dni. Ispol'zuya sobstvennye issledovaniya, provedyennye v takikh gorodakh Indii, kak: Deli, Agra, Akhmedabad - avtor osveshchaet sovremennoe otnoshenie indiytsev raznykh kast i veroispovedaniy na dannuyu sistemu v indiyskom obshchestve, a takzhe privodit ryad idey, kotorye, po mneniyu oprashivaemykh, smogli by unichtozhit' kastovuyu sistemu v Indii pri uslovii zainteresovannosti v etom pravitel'sta. Bol'shinstvo lyudey gotovo snesti te pregrady, kotorye razdelyayut edinyy narod, mnogie indiytsy uzhe ne obrashchayut vnimanie na kastovye razlichiya, no chto imenno budet s dal'neyshey sud'boy takogo fenomena, kak kastovaya sistema, pokazhet vremya.
