TY - BOOK AU - Lal, K S TI - GROWTH OF SCHEDULED TRIBES AND CASTES IN MEDIEVAL INDIA SN - 9788186471036 U1 - 305.51220954 PY - 1995/// CY - New Delhi PB - Aditya Prakashan KW - Social sciences  KW - Social sciences, sociology & anthropology  KW - Groups of people  KW - People by social and economic levels  KW - Theory Principles of stratification  KW - Caste systems KW - History and geography  KW - Asia  KW - India and neighboring south Asian countries N1 - Opening a new vista, what this work is about is contrary to modern-day make-believe, there is no evidence to show that the lower classes suffered from the tyranny of the Hindu upper classes in the medieval period. The case being exactly opposite, throughout the medieval period, the lower castes fought shoulder to shoulder with the upper castes against the foreign invaders and tyrannical rulers. Present study is only a beginning in this direction, based for the most part on medieval Muslim chronicles ER -