What have the Romans ever done for us?” quipped my partner, Ed, as we stood on the main street of Nicopolis ad Istrum, formerly a Roman town in Bulgaria that is now a glorious assemblage of ruins.

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The Varna system as interpretated by the western scholars wasn’t at all a birth-based differentiation, argues Neelakandan with sufficient references.

Thus, Punjab’s chatur-varna system evolved quite differently from other parts of India. Brahmins played a minimal role. The royalty or Rajput influence was largely confined to the mountainous areas.

Only one aspect of Hinduism is common for all the different variants: the varna hierarchy. This is my personal account of why I rejected this discriminatory religion.

Jati refers to a community, and varna refers to a classification system which determines which jati is ‘high and pure’ (dvija) and which is ‘low and impure’ (adhama).

Apart from this, the varna system should be completely eradicated. In the absence of these measures, the goal of equality enshrined in the Indian Constitution will never be achieved.

The erasure of caste or varna from the Class VI social science textbook has now been institutionalised. What was first attempted on the pretext of reducing the syllabus citing Covid-19 disruptions has ...

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