Use google to search for Nicholas Dirks book, “Castes of Mind…” and commonly known in those who study British colonial history.
What we know as the Caste system is not from ancient South Asia but rather a product of the colonial system…
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t’s funny how people look at some cultures as being stagnant or backwards, yet anyone who studies cultures knows they are always dynamic.
Colonialism and war are two catalysts that have been known to cause immense cultural change for both parties involved and the caste system is one of the results
Well Angel, to take an example, as soon u think of caste system in India, U think first of a Brahmin,
The Defenison of Brahmin is,
It can be done for anyone who wants to pursue knowledge, and the one who pursues knowledge becomes a brahmin.
The main answer to you angel is
these categorization was required to create expertise in subjects and fields which spans over generations so that the knowledge accumulates.
Example,
In companies like GE for instance when a person is about to retire in a year or so, he/she wont be given any more new work, but instead he will start documenting all his expertise learnt till date and start sharing his expertise with his junior colleagues, so that the knowledge is put to sufficient use even after the empoyee retires!!
So it was a similar concept in the vedas, that when generations together do the same work then the expertise will be passed on from parents to children and will add on and accumulate over time. But there was no compulsion that a brahmin’s son cant become a kshatriya or that a Sudra’s son cant become a Brahmin.
Saying Hinduism (vedas) preached caste system is like saying, in the modern world we dont allow a watchman’ s son to become an engineer
"India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition" - I am a PROUD INDIAN
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Use google to search for Nicholas Dirks book, “Castes of Mind…” and commonly known in those who study British colonial history.
What we know as the Caste system is not from ancient South Asia but rather a product of the colonial system…
I
t’s funny how people look at some cultures as being stagnant or backwards, yet anyone who studies cultures knows they are always dynamic.
Colonialism and war are two catalysts that have been known to cause immense cultural change for both parties involved and the caste system is one of the results
Well Angel, to take an example, as soon u think of caste system in India, U think first of a Brahmin,
The Defenison of Brahmin is,
It can be done for anyone who wants to pursue knowledge, and the one who pursues knowledge becomes a brahmin.
The main answer to you angel is
these categorization was required to create expertise in subjects and fields which spans over generations so that the knowledge accumulates.
Example,
In companies like GE for instance when a person is about to retire in a year or so, he/she wont be given any more new work, but instead he will start documenting all his expertise learnt till date and start sharing his expertise with his junior colleagues, so that the knowledge is put to sufficient use even after the empoyee retires!!
So it was a similar concept in the vedas, that when generations together do the same work then the expertise will be passed on from parents to children and will add on and accumulate over time. But there was no compulsion that a brahmin’s son cant become a kshatriya or that a Sudra’s son cant become a Brahmin.
Saying Hinduism (vedas) preached caste system is like saying, in the modern world we dont allow a watchman’ s son to become an engineer
Hope you got the point in now angel.
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"India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition" - I am a PROUD INDIAN