By Achuthan M Kandyil
My father belonged to an artisan caste categorized as one of many OBCs. Though I did good in all examinations meritoriously, in 1949 while I asked for a personality and behavior certificates wanted for making use of for admission to better schooling, the crucial of the varsity, a Brahmin, declined, asking me why i couldn't persist with my caste career. It was once the affirmative motion that enabled my admission to an engineering college.
During my complete lifetime in India, I by no means knew concerning the old starting place of both the caste approach or the disabilities imposed at the Hindu inhabitants, other than mythological tales. I by no means knew that Buddhism had prevailed in India, nor any information about Indus Valley civilization, other than a passing point out in textbooks claiming them as components of Brahmanic Hinduism. Books exposing such proof, are ordinarily excluded in Indian public libraries.
Ever due to the fact that I got here to the USA, I were searching for a honest account of India’s social, non secular, and political heritage and my end is that the traditional heritage of India, because the Western researchers recovered, isn't really a biased concoction, as being alleged via vested pursuits in India, yet one who has pop out of actual learn and facts. This booklet is written with all sturdy intentions of enlightening the general public and discovering how to mitigate India's social problems.
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