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AMBEDKAR'S PHILOSOPHY OF HINDUISM AND CONTEMPORARY CRITIQUES PROF. M. M. NINAN commonwealth has been crucial to the survival of Hinduism under Muslim rule. Whereas Buddhism was swept away as soon as its monasteries were destroyed, Hinduism retreated into its caste structure and weathered the storm. Caste also provided a framework for integrating immigrant communities: Jews, Zoroastrians and Syrian Christians. They were not only tolerated, but assisted in efforts to preserve their distinctive traditions. Nineteenth-century Westerners projected the colonial situation and the newest race theories on the caste system: the upper castes were white invaders lording it over the black natives. This outdated view is still repeated ad-nauseam by anti-Hindu authors: now that "idolatry" has lost its force as a term of abuse, "racism" is a welcome innovation to demonize Hinduism. In reality, India is the region where all skin color types met and mingled, and you will find many brahmins as black as Nelson Mandela. Ancient "Aryan" heroes like Rama, Krishna , Draupadi, Ravana (a brahmin) and a number of Vedic seers were explicitly described as being dark-skinned. Finally, caste society has been the most stable society in history. Indian communists used to sneer that " India has never even had a revolution." Actually, that is no mean achievement. (source: Why the Christian missionaries attack the institution of caste and in particular the brahmin caste? - By Koenraad Elst). 187
AMBEDKAR'S PHILOSOPHY OF HINDUISM AND CONTEMPORARY CRITIQUES PROF. M. M. NINAN PART IV GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE VARNA SYSTEM OF INDIA (A collection of studies from various sources) (some of these may be repetative) I PISTRAS AND VARNAS Indian Caste system iand the Iranian ancient Aryan classes called "pistras" show almost complete identity. In the Indian Varna system the priests are Brahmins, the warriors are Kshatriya, the merchants are Vaishya, and the artisans are Shudras corresponding to the Iranian Pistras system wherein the priests are Athravans, the warriors are Rathaestha, the merchants are Vastriya, and the artisans are Huiti. Evidently this system came in to India with the Aryans from Iran presumed to date from 1500 BC during the Aryan invasion. The above historical theory based on Aryan invasion of india is supported by the theory proposed by Georges Dumézil, who formulated the trifunctional hypothesis of social class. The trifunctional hypothesis of prehistoric Proto-Indo-European society postulates a tripartite ideology ("idéologie tripartite") reflected in the existence of three classes or castes—priests, warriors, and commoners (farmers or tradesmen)—corresponding to the three functions of the sacral, the martial and the economic, respectively. According to the Dumézil theory, all ancient societies had three main classes, each with distinct functions: the first judicial and priestly, the second connected with the military and war, and the third class focused on production, agriculture, craft and commerce. This thesis was proposed by the French mythographer Georges Dumézil in 1929 in the book Flamen-Brahman, and later in Mitra-Varuna. Dumézil proposed that Rex-Flamen of the Roman Empire is etymologically similar to Raj-Brahman of ancient India and that they made offerings to deus and deva respectively, each with statutes of conduct, dress and behavior that were similar. This theory was supported by further studies of Sophus Bugge in 1879. Bugge proposed that the word flamen is from an older *flădmen and related to the Germanic blót, each derived from the word *bhlād(s)men. The latter is the root of word Brahmin. Dumézil's theory of social division into three functional units developed over time into the hierarchy comprising four such units, and it found the fifth class probably in india soon after the occupation of India by the Aryan invaders making the defeated local tribes the fifth class. Making the defeated tribes hewers of wood and water carriers was a common practice of the period around 1500 BC. One can see the references to it even in the Bible. +++ 188
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