Famed Historian, researcher WILL DURANT  in "OUR ORIENTAL HERITAGE" 

ARGUED THAT THE CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA WAS NOT WITHOUT MERIT.

Imagine a High Priest in some mythological kingdom mandating a tax cut to his own ritzy class and making this favoritism into a  religious doctrine, (like the tablets of Moses or the rules of Christianity), a law  mandating that one group be treated as special aristocrats, who could never be income taxed as they were so damn magical that they could kill the KING with a curse or a lightning bolt. A bunch of greedy shamans spooked the King and created the CASTE SYSTEM with their LAWS OF MANU. This code was created in 1200 B.C. 12 centuries before Christ. and gave India FOUR LAYERS of society.

It made the priestly caste, the Brahmans, the Cream of society, made them immediate aristocrats and created a comfy tax-free zone for them. (Similar to America where the rich have write-offs and are taxed less than the poor.) Just being born Brahman was a ticket to status, wealth. Then came the Shastriya (soldiers and politicians) then Vaisya, the merchant class and last the SUDRAS, the gravediggers, or outcasts.. Nobody could marry down. A Brahman could not marry the Warriors or Shastriya caste, which was just below it. They couldn't marry the Vaisya class. And that group couldn't marry downwards by hooking up with Sudras.  (The unclean ones,  the gravediggers, trash carriers.) And if a Sudra even listened to holy scripture melted lead was supposed to be poured into his ears.
 

FAMED HISTORIAN WILL DURANT WROTE" “The caste system had the eugenic value of keeping the presumably finer strains from dilution and disappearance through indiscriminate mixture; (falling in love and marrying down.) It established certain habits of diet and cleanliness as a rule of honor which all might observe and emulate; it gave order to the chaotic inequalities and differences of men, and spared the soul the modern fever of climbing and gain; it gave order to every life by prescribing for each man a dharma, or code of conduct for his caste; it gave order to every trade and profession, elevated every occupation into a vocation not lightly to be changed, and, by making every industry a caste, provided its member with a means of united action against exploitation and tyranny. It offered an escape from the plutocracy or the military dictatorship which are apparently the only alternatives to aristocracy; it gave to a country shorn of political stability by a hundred invasions and revolutions a social, moral and cultural order and continuity rivaled only by the Chinese.” Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935 (Comment also found online) Pre-Politically Correct History: Eugenics and Hindu Caste search terms. "Despite all the flaws and cruelty we’ve seen come from the Hindu caste system there’s something to be said for making sure people spend more time getting things done rather than putting all their energy into competing for status."

Also, compared to the constant uncertainty of existence in our own society there is something to be said for being born into a trade union that has real leverage. Though we must be mindful of the sort of strife that is typical in Indian society, surely there are important lessons to learn from them as well. Lessons that can put the barbarous excesses of our own system in perspective. Finally, results matter. Hindu society has proven far more stable for far longer than our own."

Yeah if you consider murdering girls at birth and most houses having no inside plumbing and frequent gang rapes of pretty girls in the back of a moving bus full of passengers as being great achievements. To see Indians close up, screen PINK SARIS about bride abuse. Makes lower classes look like apes.

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