In the Western Imagination, Caste has come to define Hinduism. And the study of Hinduism by western Academics gets centered on Caste as the only organizing principle of Hinduism. How did this happen? Especially when Caste is not a word that occurs originally in any of the Indian languages? Is Varna and Jati - the words used in Sanskrit the same as Caste? Or is there a subtle but important distinction in meaning, when these Sanskrit words get mapped into…