Despite Millennia of Oppression, Why Did Not The Lower Caste And The Untouchables Revolt Against The Indian Upper Caste?

Please send your comments directly to the author of the article

You may also like: Disturbing stats on black-white inequality Now girls are a THIRD more likely to go to university than boys Sound effect: Bhajans (Hindu faith songs) helping Autism Lessening productivity 50% of Americans have worked with a hangover Scientists say fist bump is healthier than handshake ?Hug & kiss Meet Darknet, the hidden underbelly of the searchable Web

This is why this 'unstable' and dangerously educated class is at peace with itself and therefore does not revolt against the upper class. It learns to live with the realities of life and is comfortable with the system. In fact, it takes a huge amount of indoctrination that is incidentally known to the communists, to make it revolt. The Concept Aided Caste Stability This is amazingly applied to explain the caste system's stability!! It is simple, however. While the caste system has a hierarchy, sub-castes in each caste has its own hierarchy. Brahmins have it. Sudras are no exception, for they too have a similar hierarchy. Not known to many, even the untouchables have a hierarchical sub-castes!! This means that almost as middle-class, while the Sudras have the upper three castes and their own caste's upper sub-caste ones to respect albeit with resentment, they also have the untouchables and the lower Sudras sub-caste ones who had to give them the desired respect. It was the same with the untouchables too. Yes, like the middle-class, the untouchables would definitely resent the ways of the upper four castes, whom they were compelled to respect and not even touch, but they would regard their lower sub-castes e.g. scavengers as untouchables too!! No Chance For a Social Revolution With almost unheard of love marriage not troubling the rigidly arranged marriage into the same sub-caste and the 'man is what he thinks' statement being so true, everybody accepted the concept of purity and the resulting 'logical' caste system. So, apart from the small groups of the highest sub-caste of Brahmin (who get respect alone) and the lowest untouchables (who had to respect all) all had the middle-class satisfaction and stability. In fact, all enhanced the adherence to it so much that despite it being illegal since independence, it is still practiced by many. Since the purity logic even made the lowest untouchables, who practically received no respect at all, find less reasons to oppose it, there was more acceptance than resentment. Even if they thought of a revolt, they were few, far in- between, uneducated and unaroused. Well, with all that, revolution had no chance, and that is why it lasted so long. The rigidity is such that it is even finding it hard to go away today. Although things are changing now, Dalit Christians have petitioned in the UN against the Pope.

Dalit Christians Protesting Against The Church

1 2 3

Click here for more unique views on South Asia (Modi, AAP, terrorism and Pakistan)