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Hindu caste
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Caste system in India.
Medieval era, Islamic Sultanates and Mughal empire period (1000 to 1750)
Richard Eaton, a professor of history at Berkley, asserts that the presumption of a rigid Hindu caste system and the oppression of lower castes in pre-Islamic era in India is the cause of "mass conversion to Islam" during the medieval era. This claim has the problem that "no evidence can be found in support of the theory, and it is profoundly illogical".