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> It exists. Sure, no disagreement from me on that. Flat Earth, Young Earth, Lysenkoism, Vaccines causing Autism, Alien Lizard People wearing Human Skin, et a
by defrost 1y ago
> It exists.
Sure, no disagreement from me on that.
Flat Earth, Young Earth, Lysenkoism, Vaccines causing Autism, Alien Lizard People wearing Human Skin, et al are all examples of other beliefs that exist, have had books devoted to them, have true believers, etc.
These are also things that I don't come across in serious contexts.
> Invaders do not necessarily invent things out of whole cloth. You widen existing fissures in society in order to control it.
Sure, something seen in history often enough. This supports the notion of a caste system existing prior to the British.
> They were the ones who started recording it during the census.
If it didn't exist prior to the British "recording it during census" then what was it they were recording?
Something they made up whole that never existed prior?
> A 2011 census found that people claim to belong to 4,673,034 different castes/sub-castes/gotras/clans.
.. and this was the gift of the British? Sounds more like a home grown Indian expansion.
- netcan 1y agoNot like flat earth. Something that would be discussed in academic contexts and the intellectual mainstream. Articles of the last decade or two tend to be weaker in their claim, salvaging parts of the stronger version from the mid-century. The debate has since subsided.