Comments on: Excerpts - Annihilation of Caste 3

By: gargi

gargi — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:02:05 +0000

hi Dil Egitimi
welcome to this blog

will ask around and find out… there must be…
which languages specifically were you looking for ?

also check these sites
http://ambedkar.org/

harini

By: Dil Egitimi

Dil Egitimi — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:59:51 +0000

does anyone knows if there is any other information about this subject in other languages?

By: gargi

gargi — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:06:48 +0000

@nitin — interesting theory…. my own is that caste arose initially to maintain racial purity…. and then to keep power in the hands of the few….. on the acting caste and the political caste … hopefully not !!

@Prabin — i must read revolution and counter revolution… haven’t read it yet…. the problem with terms like SC and ST and OBC and forward caste and backward caste is that it lumps every one together, completely forgetting that even within a caste there is hierarchy. And that hierarchy is as rigid as inter caste hierarchy….

By: prabin

prabin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:57:52 +0000

Hi Harini,
actually you are quite correct. Dr. Ambedkar explains both the issues, the dark age because of caste system and absence of a revolution because of “graded inequality”, in his book “Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Ancient India”.

But I think, these are obvious answers ignored for obvious reasons.

By: Nitin

Nitin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:42:04 +0000

Everyone has a grand theory about things. Here’s mine:

Caste arose as a response to a parental desire to give a leg-up to their offspring in the face of increased competition and socio-economic mobility.

Witness the scionitis in politics and bollywood today; or among the bureaucracy in the years past. Abhishek Bachchans and Rahul Gandhis ten generations later will be the forebears of the acting caste called Bachchan and a ruling caste called Gandhi.

By: nanopolitan

nanopolitan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

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