The claim that the Shudras were outsiders not originally within the Hindu caste system is part of this theory.
The counterexample of the Romans undermines this theory according to Arnaldo Momigliano, who attacked it for being inherently right-wing. The husbands of Helen of Troy were analyzed using this theory by Bernard Sergent, a student of its formulator. This theory was first proposed in 1929 by the only notable scholar of Ossetian folklore, who later incorporated the idea of divine "dual sovereignty" into it. The study Mythe et Epopee, whose first volume was printed in English as The Stakes of the Warrior, uses this theory to explain the format of the Judgment of (*) Paris. The claim that the Shudras were outsiders not originally within the Hindu caste system is part of this theory. Books such as Mitra-Varuna and Flamen-Brahman proposed, for 10 points, what theory that Indo-European religions and myths draw on an ancient social division between sovereign priests, warriors, and farmer laborers, a hypothesis of Georges DumÃ©zil?
The counterexample of the Romans undermines this theory according to Arnaldo Momigliano, who attacked it for being inherently right-wing.
trifunctional hypothesis [or functional tripartition hypothesis; prompt on DumÃ©zil hypothesis until "DumÃ©zil" is read]