I came across a video of Ravish Kumar moderating a discussion about Y Sudarshan Rao's statement in his blog, that caste system was working well in olden times and has now acquired the negative connotations, primarily due to the Muslim invasion. I did not really continue watching this for long.
Like the "foreign hand"/CIA theories of the 70s and 80s, blaming everything on someone else is pretty feeble. Even assuming he is right, the Muslims have gone so what is your new excuse?
However, that's not my concern here.
The recent genetic studies (also older ones) shows that across caste, we all have similar DNA. There is some North- South divide and some small differences in the DNA of the north-eastern people, but nothing major.
If the caste system had been rigid since 3000 years ago, that is strict endogamy was practiced, there would have been bigger genetic differences between the people of different castes.
So the strict caste rules are of more recent origin. Not long ago enough to have impacted our genes significantly.
Like the "foreign hand"/CIA theories of the 70s and 80s, blaming everything on someone else is pretty feeble. Even assuming he is right, the Muslims have gone so what is your new excuse?
However, that's not my concern here.
The recent genetic studies (also older ones) shows that across caste, we all have similar DNA. There is some North- South divide and some small differences in the DNA of the north-eastern people, but nothing major.
If the caste system had been rigid since 3000 years ago, that is strict endogamy was practiced, there would have been bigger genetic differences between the people of different castes.
So the strict caste rules are of more recent origin. Not long ago enough to have impacted our genes significantly.
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