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To describe it in todays vocabulary, isms, caste, jati, varna, professional title, all relate to a timeline -related identity of peoples work at different times of many different govts/kings/colonisers/religious converters/ religious movements…. But… but when communities titles which were identities of families (the foundations of civilian communities… as in children’s identity)became weaponised for political conquest the ideas morphed into toxic demarcations for divide& rule to deprive means for earning, gain power(race, caste, jathi, etc…), create generational lack in industrial age over an agricultural times by propaganda of hierarchy, where the idea of the other as subaltern was popularised for economic& social deprivation. People deprived of means to find work to feed family rarely had time to understand statecraft in new language models of govt., the laws that unfairly just labeled people into prisons for speaking up. It took years upto 47 to rewrite a possible system to help communities find means to live. The archives hold many detailed statecraft documents that speak of how to rule over the subcontinent to take wealth& control local communities. The unfortunate aftermath of the propaganda is found to this day as contentious politics due to poverty, economic deprivation issues where caste, class, jathi reservation …all had lack of possibility to get work to feed family& community… these required new age learning & often spoken of language challenges that cause social divisions mistaken for caste issues. Not very different from some urban calling a religious majority/minority poorly concocted labels- the need to divide … the idea of the other. It’s the weaponised toxic bias of divide& rule syndrome.

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The Annihilation of Caste by Adam Smith

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