> Irony of India is that caste as a system was introduced by European.
The BBC seems to believe that the caste system is 3000 years old.
The BBC seems to believe that the caste system is 3000 years old.
I don't believe the British introduced the caste system in its current form (division of importance) to India - more likely it was a very normal evolution during the phase just before the Mughals took India over. Having huge inequality weakens countries and allows people to target oppressed demographics.
The sadness of India being unable to get rid of the system now is that it leaves us open to being attacked again for such a stupid reason when Vedic/Hindu scripture doesn't condone this.
And this is what is happening in the West and especially in the US now. We don't have the caste system in the West per-se, but we've left many people behind. This has become our weakness as they can be easily provoked and guided elsewhere, away from our founding principles. I can only imagine how gleeful enemies of the West feel when they see what we've done to ourselves and how easy we've become to manipulate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=drieddust&comments=t