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the country. For a detailed exposition of my views in this regard, see my articles 'Stages', IHR. Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 21-23, and 'Candala', IHR, Vol. XIII, Nos 1-2, pp. 24-31.
105. B.R. Ambedkar made untenable claims in this regard in his book The Untouchables (Delhi, 1948, pp. 103, 155, 159); cf. Vivekanand Jha, 'Stages', op. dt, p. 31.
106. See my article 'Sodal Content of the Bhagavadgita', MR, Vol. XI, Nos. 1-2, July 1984 and January 1985, pp. 1-44 (first presented at the VIIth World Sanskrit Conference held at the Kem'Institute, Leiden, in August 1987). This IHR volume was released in 1988.1 have not found any evidence of the impact of feudalism on bhakti (devotion) in this text.
107. Debiprasad Chttopadhyaya has in his book Lokayata: A Study in Ancient Indian Materialism (People's Publishing House, New Delhi, 1959), and B.N.S. Yadava has in his study Society in Northern India provided evidence for this.
108. R.S. Sharma, 'The Kali Age: A Period of Sodal Crisis' in S.N.Mukherjee (ed.), History and Thought (Essays in Honour of A.L. Basham), Subarnarekha, Calcutta, 1982, pp. 186-203; B.N.S. Yadava, 'The Accounts of the Kali Age and the Sodal Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages', JHR, Vol. V, Nos. 1-2, July 1978 and January 1979, pp. 31-63; Vivekanand Jha, 'Candala', op. dt., pp. 21-23.