User has Claude write a scholarly history of caste in India, from Harappa to today
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-26
The poster asked Claude to produce a history of caste in India from Harappa to the present, weaving in scholars like Dumont, Ambedkar, Srinivas, and Dirks. The result exceeded expectations—so much so that even caste scholars might learn something, they say. A hands-on test of LLM capability for long-form scholarly synthesis.
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