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Caste System
Uttar Pradesh: Farhana shot and hacked to pieces by brothers Salman, Faman, Noman and Meherban for marrying a ‘lower caste Muslim’
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"Uttar Pradesh: Farhana shot and hacked to pieces by brothers Salman, Faman, Noman and Meherban for marrying a ‘lower caste Muslim’", Opindia, June 29,...
Don’t use caste to erase Hindu Dharma, says son of a Shudra farmer
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I was born in a Shudra community to a family of peasants in Western India.
When I was a child, I started going to our...
Secret No. 4: “Fallacies,” or The Emperor has no Clothes
The standard model of the caste system, as developed by Western “scholars” over the last two hundred years, seems to have been accepted as...
Secret No. 3: How Varna and Jati Morphed into Caste
Ethnocide of Hindu Society by the British Raj
The caste system we know today is a gift of the British Raj. How and why they...
Myths of the “Caste System” and their impact- How varnas and jatis were blatantly twisted
Like any successful civilization, the Hindus had a variety of occupations and lifestyles, which led to occupational identities open to everyone, subject to talent,...
Does an oppressive Hindu caste system actually exist?
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Public and academic discourse in Bharat often alludes to an oppressive Hindu caste system. An oppressive Hindu caste system has become a staple of...
Varnashrama system is a pragmatic framework to organise diversity, does not seek ‘perfection’ or monoculturalism
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The sheer genius of VAD and the so called caste system can only be understood with some honesty if we accept that perfection is...
“Caste system in India does not differ greatly from the class system of Europe”: US newspaper in 1897
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Excerpts from The Indianapolis Journal, 1897-
"CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA"
"DOES NOT DIFFER GREATLY FROM THE CLASS SYSTEM OF EUROPE"
"Organization of Indian Society Complicates...
A primer on Yajmani system
The peculiar feature of Bharat's society in which Jati (caste) system was the fundamental modal of socioeconomic organisation, its sustenance in the rural areas...
German footwear retailer funds conversion in Andhra
Deichmann, a giant in the footwear retail industry in Germany and Europe has been funding evangelism in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu. The charity arm...