I am not against caste system. The caste system should be used to preserve the race. I don't want castes to intermix.
But I have 2 problems.
First: I see no point in segregating each and every subcaste and caste, and telling them to marry among their own caste and subcaste.
Brahmins and Rajputs are both high castes. They have physical features similar to each other and I feel they are very compatible too, but they don't intermix (for reasons). I don't know how many subcastes each of them have.
In SC category, there are also many castes and under them, subcastes.
Is each one supposed to marry within their own subcaste too?
Yeah intercaste marriages are rarely seen. Isn't it good? To me it is good for them and for everyone.
I think intercaste marriages between subcastes of each caste do happen with harmony...No?? It is not negative I think ? I can't really say anything about subcastes.
You have higher end ones, like brahmin, rajputs, jats, (add more)
-then lalas, bania/teli, (insert more)
-OBCs
-towards the end SCs (too many castes, i don't know which to put above or below)
Not forgetting to mention the tribals.
I think we could draw better lines that would remove the neurotic madness of 'intermixing subcastes'. We preserve bloodlines, not the surnames or titles. I brought this up because you were talking about 'lower SCs'.
But surnames could be used to trace the history of a family bloodline and prevents intercaste marriages. For example... throughout centuries...there are people from lower castes who took the surnames of higher caste and thus changing their caste..
This thing still happens to this but maybe rarely.
I think intercaste marriages are less or equally dangerous compared to inter racial marriages or not at all? What do you think? It destroys both higher and lower caste person bloodline... No?? Maybe I'll need to learn more about bloodline concept.
I read my own reply and I think I should be clear.
Personally, I don't see a problem when a Brahmin and a (real/fair) Rajput marry.
My reason is that they are very similar to each other in their physical/facial features, colour, and are both of high castes. So I won't really care if Chamars and Musahars intermix (if it's true they don't have much genetic difference).
However, I'll never support intermixing between 2 of considerably far spectrum.
Eg. between an OBC and an SC, an ST/SC marrying a Rajput/Baniya or even between STs and SCs.
When I said focus should be on bloodlines and not titles, I meant different surname doesn't matter. How close their blood and caste is, matters. IMO this is why a Pandey and Singh (Rajput) can marry. And yes, keep the titles and surname intact because it helps the cause.
I hope I'm making sense. I think intermixing harms the fairer race the most, so in this case, the ones on the top: real Brahmins, Rajputs and Baniyas (and not who are just converts). Between OBCs, STs and SCs, it dissolves their characteristics, and therefore detrimental to each one's integrity.
I too will drop the caste topic here because it is too complex to be discussed thoroughly.
Indians are mixed no? Both south indians and north Indians. This created alot of problems and divisions on skin color basis too.
Yea I've read that too and heard caste system can never be erased from indian society. If caste system is based in racial terms...then it is good but the negatives things such as discrimination against lower caste doesn't seem to wither away in this current Indian society. This discrimination is futile and stupid .
I wouldn't call that 'discrimination', but
stigma . To tell the truth, I have never been discriminated against my whole life on the basis of caste. In fact, I have zero complaints against higher caste people reagarding this.
There is very little, if not zero discrimination, in urban and developed settings. If rural areas have this problem, it will vanish as soon as infrastructure development picks up the pace there. The stigma related to lower castes would be removed, if Hindutva gains a firm ground. A single Hindu identity will make peace between castes.
I think the dark skinned ST/SC are racially mixed and are half Dravidian and half hindu north Aryans...No???? But we can't really be sure because india has been invaded so many times in history. Some say Indians have Iranian blood so forth things...
I'm not sure about this. We can't confirm without a scientific evidence, preferably genetics-based.
But why is it like when general caste people say to end reservation and then the lower caste people defend stating "first end caste discrimination"... And then what happens is a third idiot (government and ministers) takes all the advantages of the fights between these castes people. :mrgreen: then these people just stay displeased and angry at each other.
Jack did a nice job at explaining in his post to this thread.
Caste discrimination, pertaining to unjust practise like, being treated as outcast due to caste, not being allowed to own lands, enter temples, drink from wells... these don't exist. You and I, we all know that. Like, an Upadhyay and I have equal rights and same opportunities, regardless of our caste. We drink from same municipality-supplied water source and live as neighbours in an apartment. The constitution and judiciary of India has made it clear, and it is honored.
Stigma is something else that'll go away with time as well. I have high hopes for that.
Now there are many that are aggressively selling the idea of "Brahmin supremacy" and "Higher caste's atrocities on lower caste".
Some are from corrupt leaders and politicians that do nothing substantial, except to use castes as vote banks and make money out of them.
Rest are from the more malicious (((organised groups))). They keep these false ideas alive and then inflate it WAYY out of proportion, claiming it exists even today. They attack Hindutva, claiming that it is a part of "hidden agenda" of high castes to restore the old oppressive heirarchy of caste system. They attack RSS, claim that it wants to take militant action against pisslamists and support caste-based discrimination (both of which are totally false).
[My father watches these marxist-communist propaganda outlets (disguised as "youtube channels") and believes them, but fails to answer when I ask him as to how he gets to work in the same office with a Choudhary and is paid the same salary as him.]
These types of propaganda are attractive to lower castes because it gives them an excuse to remain poor, lazy and keep a defeatist attitude, which annoys me a lot. Also they get to blame everything on higher castes and in the process, bullshit themselves: "because they took our lands", "because they have power", "because they treated us unfairly" blah blah. (I'm keeping poverty aside, because it can come to anyone). If they start being brutally honest with themselves, they'll see that the only thing that's holding them down, is they themselves!
Eg. my father repeats that Brahmins have all the wealth, but he could save enough money from his decent salary and buy a land. Others have done this [Hell, an ST GNM nurse working at a private hospital, with a salary half of his, and being the sole earner of her family, built a house with savings!]. He just doesn't and wastes money, but keeps on blaming high castes.
If these ((news outlets)) spewed the truth, the lower castes would realise no discrimination exists. What exists now is just nepotism, poverty and the power of bribes. But they don't stop painting high castes, esp. Brahmins, as offenders.
There ARE tensions between castes due to differences of opinion, such as on topic of beef. But tensions are not just restricted between high-low castes. I've heard of separate incidences in rural areas where there are strifes amongst castes, especially between higher ones (for territorial disputes).
[One instance I was told by a professor, a Brahmin, where she said in one of her relative's villages, there was such great friction between
two jatis (both high) that no layman would stay outside after 10. Groups of gun-armed men from both parties would roam in their fields, catch hold of such person and ask: "which jati you belong to?". If he gave the wrong answer (the opposite jati), he'd be screwed. If he'd give the right answer (ie. the jati of the armed men), they would let him be.]
All that aside, if someone comes and says "Lower castes are oppressed by the higher castes", they're lying.