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Soon after it became definite that the farming of the future Constitution of India was to be entrusted to a Constituent Assembly the Working Committee of the All –India Scheduled Castes Federation asked me to prepare a Memorandum on the Safeguards for the Scheduled Castes for being submitted to the Constituent Assembly on behalf of the federation. I very gladly undertook the task. The results of my labour are contained in this brochure. The Memorandum defines ...
The Portuguese usage of caste refers only to lineage and does not refer to any particular kind of division of grouping, purity or pollution. The genesis of caste is to be settled by comparative evidence and not based upon only on the verses of Rigveda. The four fold varna is elastic as per laws of Manu but sociologists and historians now believe they know more about the ancients than ancients themselves. The caste is in its nature rather a matter of sociology ...
This book is a sequel to my treatise called The Shudras –Who they were and How they came to be the Fourth Varna of the Indo-Aryan Society which was published in 1946. Besides the Shudras, the Hindu Civilization has produced three social classes whose existence has not received the attention it deserves. The three classes are:- 1 The Criminal Tribes who number about 20 Millions or so; 2. The Aboriginal Tribes who number about 15 millions; and 3. The Untouchables ...