The book, at the time of its publication was reviewed prominently in Times Literary Supplement. ’Caste System: Myths, Reality, Challenge’ by Sinha is a unique work on the much-debated and researched subject of caste system in India. The editor of the Rachnavali himself had translated ’Caste System: Myths, Reality, Challenge’ in Hindi, which was published by Rajkamal Prakashan itself. (Though he also knows French and German.) Only a few English writings of Sinha were translated into Hindi. Sachchidanand Sinha wrote extensively in English and Hindi.

The publication is done by Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi. Senior journalist, translator and researcher Arvind Mohan has edited this eight-volume seminal anthology. The collective works of socialist thinker Sachchidanand Sinha, an astute thinker-critic of modern industrial civilization and, simultaneously, a serious scholar of art and culture, has been published in the form of ’Sachchidanand Sinha Rachnavali’. Sachchidanand Sinha, ‘Socialism: a manifesto for survival’, P. The “market socialist economy” could get in steam now only by streamlining itself into a full-fledged market economy, i. So, inequalities in income, reduction of employment, and finally the abandonment of other socialist objectives - all forced their way in to the so-called socialist societies. The consumerist standards of the Western world could be achieved only by providing very high incomes to a few in highly competitive industries. The aim of consumerism, which the rulers of these economies had promoted, when they aspired to surpass the United States in the standard of life, conceived in terms of capitalist West, forced them to abandon their socialist objective.

Caste System by Sachchidanand Sinha