Tuesday, 6 April 2021

Caste System:

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Caste System: 

The Rungs of the caste hierarchy Ladder : 
Caste means ethnicity/ race or clan. 
Caste means group of people descending from exactly one single common ancestor. 
And the Caste System is a system of ethnicities.

A. Upper Castes : The fair skinned race of "Aryans." Actually Indo-Aryans.
1. Brahmin, the priest
2. Kshatriya, the king and warrior
3. Vaishya, the money lender and white skinned traders.

B. Lower Castes :  Black skinned natives called Dravidians or Rakshasas.
B1. Sudras : 
B1a:   Upper Shudras : 
4. Dravidian Kings. Velamas, Hatkar, Vellalar.
5. Cultivator or peasant castes. Reddies, Kammas, Maratha Kunbi.
B1b:    Middle Shudras:
6. Black Traders, goldsmith,  weaver, potter & artisan castes. Tree climbing monkeys called Gouds.
B1c:    Lower Shudras:
7. service castes : washerman, barber.

B2. Ati-Shudras : Outcastes: Blackest skinned natives.
8. Dalits : scavengers and free farm labour i.e. paki serfs. Eg. Malas of Andhra.
9. Mahadalits : scavengers & leather workers i.e.  paki cobblers. Eg. Madigas.

B3. Aborigines: Also Blackest skinned
10. Scheduled tribes or STs.
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Brahma Puranam:
Brahma is creator of Aryans and Dravidians:
1. Brahmins are born out of Brahma's mouth.
2. Kshatriyas are born out of Brahma's arms.
3. Vaishyas are born out of Brahma's thighs.
4. Sudras are born out of Brahma's feet.
5. Paki castes are born out of Brahma's paki.


Religion gives legal, divine sanction to crimes in Hinduism and facilitates continued oppression of dalits and dark skinned Dravidian race people by the fair skinned Aryans.


Many people feel that the last one or the Underdog should win. Victory of the underdog is not popular in India.


Indigenous people of India are the STs, the aborigines.

Next came Dravidians.
SCs are Dravidians only but the weaker and blackest, for which reason they were forced to do manual scavenging of faeces for all castes.

Land in India, even theoretically, does not belong to SCs at all. It very properly belongs to STs.

Whats in a name? Adi Dravida i.e. proto-Dravidian is such a mega misnomer. Adi-dravida are STs. SCs are not, properly, Adi-dravida.

Being the Blackest and relatively weak ethnicities, pakis stayed outside villages as outcastes.


In other words, the 5 Ss of caste system are :

1. Brahmans the Supreme caste
2. Kshatriyas, the Support caste
3. Vaishyas, the Supply caste.
4. Shudras, the Service castes
5. Dalits, the Scavenger castes.

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