Rahul Gandhi s Yatra Must Talk About Social Justice But Also Spiritual Justice for Shudras, Dalits thewire.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thewire.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
If the OBCs, Dalits and Adivasis were to follow Santishree Dhuilipudi Pandit, they would have to give up the agenda of social justice and forget about the rights recognised in the constitution.
To realise Ambedkar's vision of a 'new India' devoid of caste hierarchies and untouchability, Shudras need to realise how their fellow productive Shudras, the Dalits, were separated from them and that, through this division, the Dwijas' control over both became tighter.
What India holds for the future of Shudras: A book of essays explores new paths for the ‘caste’
An excerpt from Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s essay ‘Shudras and Democratic India’, part of the volume ‘The Shudras: Vision for a New Path’. A 1908 photograph of a Shudra wedding couple. | Internet Archive Book Images / Public domain
Vedic society was pastoral. When the agrarian economy of the Harappan civilisation disappeared, a mere cattle economy took its place in the Rig Vedic period. It needs common sense to realise that without an advanced cattle and agrarian economy, Harappans could not have built such sprawling cities. In the Vedic period, there was no urban civilisation. It was a pastoral economy coupled with the division of society into graded varnas.