throwaway_281

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by throwaway_281 5y ago
No it is not. Then Ramayana and Mahabharata aren't scriptures, too. Smritis are definitely scripture. And yes, there were dissenters. And no, not of only some Hindus, the casteism was systematic. I have reletives in a small town, and
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by throwaway_281 5y ago
"Creamy layer" only applies to OBCs and not SCs. SCs have no ceiling of income to qualify for benefits. I know about casteism in other religions. But the scale is nowhere near to that of Hinduism. And yes, even for the OBCs, it is
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by throwaway_281 5y ago
It is mentioned in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishads that brahmins were born from the head of the Purusha and the Sudras from His feet. Dalits are even outside of these four varnas.
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by throwaway_281 5y ago
This person is spreading propaganda. Read Manu Smriti, Yajnabalka Smriti, or Parashara Smriti. You can find them online. In Bhagavad Gita, there are no verses that directly say bad things about so-called lower castes, but liberation is offe
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by throwaway_281 5y ago
> The caste system, as per scriptures, is just a categorization of work that people do. This is blatantly false. Can you cite me some? Even the Lord Rama killed Shambuka because he wanted to learn the Vedas as a Sudra. Another incident I
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by throwaway_281 5y ago
> There's no dharmic status whatsoever for "caste" in the commonplace sense I have read many verses from Manu Smriti, Parashara Smriti, and Yajnabalka Smriti. They are ripe with casteism. In Vedas, too, it is mentioned tha
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by throwaway_281 5y ago
That would be impractical. And the results of this cannot be perceived now. But I believe that more communities will seek to be the "lower castes" because there will be benefits. And, as more and more people will be in the SCs, th
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by throwaway_281 5y ago
No not really. In some cases the village might indicate one's caste. In most cases, it does not. If two Indians are from the same region, they know the demographic of that region pretty well. So, that might be revelatory. But this is o
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by throwaway_281 5y ago
I would like non-Indian people to know that the caste problem is not uniformly distributed throughout India. In cities like Kolkata, Chennai, and Mumbai- the problem is non-existent. The problem is much more rampant in Northern parts of Ind