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caste-2637	Esler, Dominic	An Integrated Approach to Caste in Sri Lanka	2025	34	.pdf	application/pdf	16720	1105	61	In other words, while scholars working elsewhere in South Asia approach caste per se as an important comparative topic, in Sri Lanka caste is usually enclosed and circumscribed within a framework of essentialised Tamil Hindu or Sinhala Buddhist identities that precludes similar comparative investigations. An Integrated Approach to Caste in Sri Lanka Dominic Esler1 Abstract In this article I argue that Sri Lankan caste research has been inhibited by the widespread popular assumption that caste manifests in Sri Lanka in the form of parallel and incommensurate ethnoreligious caste systems.	cache/caste-2637.pdf	txt/caste-2637.txt