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Evangelists, Colonialist, Colonial apologists & Leftists have a perverse incentive in theorising & establishing a framework linking caste to Indians & Hindus al
by naruvimama 4y ago
Evangelists, Colonialist, Colonial apologists & Leftists have a perverse incentive in theorising & establishing a framework linking caste to Indians & Hindus along with exaggerations and hiding equally bad or worse examples from Europe.
It would only be fair to look at the opposing views and reject or reevaluate theories that are on thin ice.
Jati & Varna are two separate ideas, "Indian caste system" is an import and a framework trying to combine the two.
Why do we keep using the word "caste", when we talk about Jati. A lot of Jatis do not see themselves as lower & upper and there are thousands of Jatis so no one is carrying around a dictionary to see where they stand.
People rarely talk ever about "their" varna and the vast majority do not see themselves or their jati falling into a specific varna.
70% of the temples in Tamil Nadu have priests from the Jati that built the temple and non-brahmins, there falls the idea "Brahmins" exclusively being the priestly class.
- pkphilip 4y agoYou are so right! Actually, here is one missionary (Shankaracharya) who is linking Jati/Varna to Hinduism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uks3lIJ3wR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uks3lIJ3wR0