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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India Seems like the British systems formed and formalized it, but that that itself was an amalgam of the cultural stra
by monetus 4y ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India
Seems like the British systems formed and formalized it, but that that itself was an amalgam of the cultural stratification that was sometimes already there. Multiculturalism turned monstrous...
sad.
- rendall 4y ago> Seems like the British systems formed and formalized it Here is an extremely harsh critique of that perspective, from an upper-caste scholar of Indian history https://thewire.in/caste/caste-history-postcolonial-studies https://thewire.in/caste/caste-history-postcolonial-studies
- ch4s3 4y agoThere have been a number of genetic studies[1] that can identify caste heredity going back to almost the time of the Vedas showing VERY little genetic mixing between the castes. [1] https://hms.harvard.edu/news/genetic-study-finds-caste-system-ancient-india-began-about-2000-years-ago https://hms.harvard.edu/news/genetic-study-finds-caste-syste...
- monetus 4y agoI think the link through in that article is sadly dead, but I still found it. Wow, that is less intermingling than I would have guessed. I knew that caste had been there for ages, but it is still a bit astonishing to read that.
- ch4s3 4y agoOops, I may have chopped off a few characters. Yeah there were essentially only a handful of upper caste men gathering children with lower caste women and virtually no other mixing for thousands of years.