From: f43703a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp (SUPRATIC GUPTA)
Subject: Caste system - we have to destroy it
Organization: Nagoya University Computation Center, Nagoya, Japan.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:49:07 GMT

Caste system - we have to destroy it

Yes we have to destroy it. Now what is caste system?

Caste system is supposed to represent the class/job/
intelectual status of the person. In that sence Caste 
system is perfectly OK. In that way, Islam, Shiks,
nd any other society has caste system. So this not 
the caste system that we are trying to break. What
we are trying to break is the Heriditory and over respect
for Brahmins. This is the bad thing. Obviously I
want to marry a compatible person. But a son of a 
uncompatible person need not be a person like him
if given opurtunity. Mondal commision is in fact trying to
give this chance (don't know if it is over doing it, 
History will tell if it was right or wrong after 20 years).

So Hindu friends, Please don't just define Caste system 
as a set of compatible group. It is the hriditory 
part of it.

One friend, pointed me out that, alsasian(spell??) dogs
give birth to simillar of the kind, where as street
dogs give birth to simmilar of its Kind. I want to
ask him if he really considers himself superior then
a person that had to earn his bread from the child hood,
and could not get a formal education?? I know he will
say yes. His ignorance. Given equal chance, many lower caste
people, especially liberated (from lower caste) muslims
are doing much better now. I really thak Islam for it.  



One thing to note
that in past it used to effect a lot in all matters
of life in a Hindu society. But thanks to BUDHA,
Vivekananda, Gandhi , and among many others the muslim
rulers and British, we have seen this system changing.
In this respect, I reeally respect all these religions
that don't have Heriditory castee system.


But I will also like to point out that Islam is not the
only religion without Caste system. Budhisim, which I feel
very simillar to Islam, does not also have Caste system.
Baba Ambedkar had converted a lot of lower caste people
to Budhisim also.

But this conversion is not the solution. Because, still
Brahmins and higher castes are strong, and control every     
thing. Surely now they are much better then the lower caste
people. This is also heriditory. Yes , people justify caste
system on this fact. But this advantage of Brahmins is
based on Thousands of years of supression by higher caste
people. So today you cannot justify the heriditory caste
system based on this point that you are better then others.


Because you can probably find a compatible person from a lower
caste origin , thanks to all the names that I named earlier.

More over there are many like me from the Higher caste, who has
chosen to denounce it, vowed our life to destroy this evil
practice. If only you are inteligent and just, then you all
will recognise this evil and would not be a part of this 
evil.

To end I would like to repeat.

Caste system is not wishing to marry a person of similar
intelectual standard, but the heriditory part of it. It
is the intelectual part of it.

If you think that caste system is still right, surely
you consider, Budha, Gandhi, and Vivekanda as fools. Think
before you comit to it

with regards
SUPRATIC GUPTA

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SUPRATIC GUPTA

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