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Megasthenes divided Indian society into seven groups based on occupation. What real scholarly debate surrounds this account?

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1. Megasthenes divided Indian society into seven groups based on occupation. What real scholarly debate surrounds this account?

Whether it oversimplifies a more complex reality, or whether Megasthenes even reached Pataliputra himself

Whether the seven groups were actually seventeen groups

Whether Megasthenes invented the account entirely with no basis in India

There is no debate; historians universally accept the seven-group account as fully accurate

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