Dalit Theology2

EMERGENCE OF DALIT THEOLOGY : M. M. NINAN
The researchers, from the University of Utah and Andhra Pradesh University in India, used two sets of
genes in their analyses. One set, from the mitochondria, are only passed maternally and can be used to
track female inheritance. The other, on the male-determining Y chromosome, can only be passed along
paternally and thus track male inheritance. `there was a group of males with European or Caucasian
affinities who were largely responsible for this invasion 3,000 or 4,000 years ago,'' said geneticist
Lynn Jorde of the University of Utah. If women had accompanied the invaders, he said, the evidence
should be seen in the mitochondrial genes, but it is not evident.
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Thus by the Vedic period there were two powerful races, Aryans and Dravidians all over India. The local
original inhabitants of India were forced to move into remote mountains and remained as tribal
community. They were living outside of the villages beyond the wall. This became the norm as Vedics
came in. They brought with them their Chathurvarna (the four castes). Vedic people could not classify
them under their scheme and hence became the Outcaste - those outside of the Hindu Caste System -
the avarnas the people without a color or caste. As the defeated serfs they came to be Untouchables and
Outcastes.
Manu made these inequalities as law.
MANU
Manu made these inequalities as law. Manusmṛti also known as Mānava-Dharmaśāstra is one metrical
work of the Dharmaśāstra textual tradition of Hinduism. According Jayaram
(http://www.hinduwebsite.com/sacredscripts/hinduism/dharma/manusmriti.asp) realistically dates it to 200
AD. Since it is written in Classical Sanskrit it cannot be earlier than 150 AD. However until recently it was
dated way back in the vedic ages.
Jayaram V explains: "The Manusmriti, translated "Laws of Manu" or "Institutions of Manu", is regarded as
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