notes/wrongs/casteism.md

title	tags
casteism	politics, nonsense

Resources

• Annihilation of Caste by Dr. Ambedkar.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India

• Discussion on Reddit

  • One of the main problems of Left is that they only know Gita and Manusmriti as source of casteism. Hindus simply say but they're just two books.

  • Instead, tell right wing about Dharmasutras - Apastambha Dharmasutra, Gautama Dharmasutra, Vaisista Dharmasutra, Baudhyana Dharmasutra, etc.

  • Tell right wing about Puranas - how Bhagavad Purana bars women and Shudras from reading Vedas, how several Puranas tell people to put molten lead in Shudra's ears if they hear Vedas, etc.

  • Tell them about how Chandogya Upanishad discriminates against Candalas.

  • Tell them how Arthashastra, a non-religious document from ancient India, mostly deals with caste system and establishing discriminatory rules against Shudras.