Guest guest Posted July 30, 2001 Report Share Posted July 30, 2001 Rajiv Malhotra wrote >Regarding the second statement, the question arises as to who created >caste. As I said in the earlier post, marriages within different varnas created caste groups in the first order,second order, etc. It is not clear wheninter-marriages stopped producing new groupings,and offsprings merely inherited caste identity. Second source of new castes has been arrival of distict ethnic groups: Greeks. Sakas into NW India,and similarly elsewhere. rajesh kochhar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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