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he first thing that strikes the visitor to India is
the prevalence of destitution, poverty and mis-
ery. Daily life is gloomy, filthy and depressing.
Beggars, homeless people, and the exceedingly
poor are ubiquitous and one does not need to be
a sage to realize that they are living in a great
deal of misery. One of the foremost causes of
this misery is the caste system that has been ruling India mercilessly for
over 3000 years known as Jati.
The caste system is the legacy of the Aryans who occupied India be-
tween 2500-1500 BC. It is a barbaric social class and hierarchy system de-

vised by the Aryans at the time when they developed the Hindu civi-
lization with the view to continue widespread slavery among Hindus. In
this way, they laid the foundations of the racist order that separated
their own tall, white-skinned and high nosed race from the indigenous
dark-skinned (Munda, Dasyu, Dravid) people. This system continues to
this day. Throughout history the caste system has been the fundamental
reason behind the killings, murders, arsons, rapes, injustices, conflicts
and other social ills prevailing in India. Worst of all, this system formu-
lated by the Aryans, is considered to be a religious necessity based on
the so -called sacred scriptures and considered sacrosanct by all Hindus.
For this reason the caste system is deeply rooted in Indian society and
thus far, no social or legal, local or international pressure has been able
to remove it.
The mythical Hindu scriptures base the emergence of this discrim-

inatory system on an exceedingly nonsensical legend, according to
which the supposed first human is Manu. From the head of Manu; the
priest class, from his arms; the princes and warriors, from his legs; farm-
ers and tradesmen and from his feet, the lower classes were created. In
other words, inequalities emerged as the result of this process. This su-