There is a view that an inquiry into these questions is of no present-day moment. Population cannot be considered to be dealing with a trivial problem.īook deals with the Shudras in the Indo-Aryan But there is no doubt that excluding the UntouchablesĪbout 75 to 80 per cent of the population of Hindus. The problem it is because they have not cared to know what the population of the Shudras is. If people have no idea of the magnitude of This shows the nature of what might be called the problem of the Shudras. Indeed until the fifth Varna of the Untouchables came into being, the Shudras were in the eyes of the Hindus the lowest Him from rising above the condition fixed for him by law. Gradation but he is subjected to inunumerable ignominies and disabilities so as to prevent Under the system of Chaturvarnya, the Shudra is not only placed at the bottom of the Again, the system of graded inequality is the basisįor determining the terms of associated life as between the four Varnas. Orders, the theory goes further and makes the principle of graded inequality. Unfortunately, more than this is involved in the theory of Chaturvarnya. Principle if it meant no more than mere division of society into four classes. Chaturvarnya would have been a very innocent Real nature of the problem of the Shudras nor of its magnitude. Proposition that the social organization of the Indo-Aryans was based on the theory of Chaturvarnya and that Chaturvarnya means division of society into fourĬlasses Brahmins (priests), Kshatriyas (soldiers),Vaishyas (traders) and Shudras (menials) does not convey any idea of the Nor can it be said to deal with a trivial problem. The present stage of the literature on the subject, a book on the Shudras cannot be VIII - The Number of Varnas, Three or Four? 9.

III - The Brahma nic Theory of the Status of the ShudrasĬhapter VII - The Shudras w ere Kshatriyas II - The Brahm anic Theory of the Origin of the Shudras The gospel that for India social democracy was more vital than Of Hindus conscious of their slavery to the higher classes and who preached Greatest Shudra of Modern India who made the lower classes

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