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“Chaturvarna system... is the foundational bureaucracy of Indian humiliation.”

Book:The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

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“Slavery was not merely an unfortunate thing that happened to black people. It was an American innovation, an American institution created by and for the benefit of the elites of the dominant caste and enforced by poorer members of the dominant caste who tied their lot to the caste system rather than to their consciences.”

Racism In America Caste Caste System

Book:Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Source: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“All paradises, all utopias are defined by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]”

Inspiration Desires Wishes Exclusion Paradises Utopias

Author:Toni Morrison

“To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny what is self-evident in another member of one's own species.”

Racism In America Caste Caste System

Book:Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Source: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.”

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Book:The Fire Next Time

Source: The Fire Next Time

“The Hindu caste system and its attendant laws of purity became deeply embedded in Indian culture. Long after the Indo-Aryan invasion was forgotten, Indians continued to believe in the caste system and to abhor the pollution caused by caste mixing.”

Caste System

Book:Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Caste is a very important element of Indian society. As soon as a person is born, caste determines his or her destiny. Being born is not in the control of a person. If it were in one’s control, then why would I have been born in a Bhangi household? Those who call themselves the standard-bearers of this country’s great cultural heritage, did they decide which homes they would be born into? Of course, they turn to scriptures to justify their position, the scriptures that establish feudal values instead of promoting equality and freedom.”

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Book:Joothan: An Untouchable's Life

Source: Joothan: An Untouchable's Life

“A doctor, a teacher and a politician have no caste.”

“& everywhere he observed that casual brutality lighter races show the darker.”

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Book:Cloud Atlas

Source: Cloud Atlas

“The gist of it was the caste (privileged) hindus wanted the power to close the door on untouchables, but on no account could untouchables be given the power to close the door on themselves. The Masters knew that Choice was Power.”

Caste System

Book:Annihilation of Caste

Source: Annihilation of Caste

“As he was raising his hand to his lips, it occurred to him that this was the first time in all his years that he had eaten something that was prepared by hands of unknown caste. Perhaps it was this thought, or perhaps it was just the smell of the food--it happened, at any rate, that he was assailed by a nausea so powerful that he could not bring his fingers to his mouth. The intensity of his body's resistance amazed him: for the fact was that he did not believe in caste, or at least he had said, many, many times, to his friends and anyone else who would listen. If, in answer, they accused him of having become too tash, overly Westernized, his retort was always to say, no, his allegiance was to the Buddha, the Mahavira, Shri Chaitanya, Kabir and many others such--all of whom had battled against the boundaries of caste with as much determinations as any European revolutionary. Neel had always taken pride in laying claim to this lineage of egalitarianism, all the more so since it was his prerogative to see on a Raja's guddee: but why, then, had he never before eaten anything prepared by an unknown hand?”

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Book:Sea of Poppies

Source: Sea of Poppies

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