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**Solo3uc4** · 01-25-2007, 07:21 AM

I guess there shud b an economic angle also behind this. Ppl doing this kind of jobs might not hav earned more and hence their heirs will be forced to do this.....And I guess this is very much past...Today no one is forcing anyone to do a particular job. Its upto their ability.We have to bear in mind that there is discrimination everywhere depending on the job(may be sometimes within the family

).Its because of people dont understand to respect the sentiments of others. I guess its hard to believe only varnashrama is responsible for thousand of castes in India!!!How it wud hav done it....Or name it.....Maintain it .....If one goes to another place y cannot lie...What i want to say is most people believed in caste system.So it existed.Today also many people believe in caste system.So it exists(Otherwise so many ppl can lie and become another caste.So many wud hav done intercaste marriages).But I truly believe the discrimination now is lower on Dalits by other castes. And we can eliminate the discrimination easily rather than caste.

Dear Pappan,

Some dalits cleaned toilets, some were washermen, some were barbers, some climbed palm trees to make toddy, some were butchers, some had robbery as their job, some cleaned streets .I dont know what percent of dalits did some what decent jobs, but even those jobs had very bad working conditions and they lived like prisoners in their huts.

Toilet cleaning came to India only after muslims came here,but the people who cleaned toilets were already downtrodden.I dont know what their earlier job was, but I dont think that it would have been a decent profession.

Discrimination by birth and varnashrama have thrown dalits to the current situation.Rest of us should help them by education and destruction of castes.

01-25-2007, 07:21 AM	#36
Solo3uc4 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 460 Senior Member	I guess there shud b an economic angle also behind this. Ppl doing this kind of jobs might not hav earned more and hence their heirs will be forced to do this.....And I guess this is very much past...Today no one is forcing anyone to do a particular job. Its upto their ability.We have to bear in mind that there is discrimination everywhere depending on the job(may be sometimes within the family ).Its because of people dont understand to respect the sentiments of others. I guess its hard to believe only varnashrama is responsible for thousand of castes in India!!!How it wud hav done it....Or name it.....Maintain it .....If one goes to another place y cannot lie...What i want to say is most people believed in caste system.So it existed.Today also many people believe in caste system.So it exists(Otherwise so many ppl can lie and become another caste.So many wud hav done intercaste marriages).But I truly believe the discrimination now is lower on Dalits by other castes. And we can eliminate the discrimination easily rather than caste. Dear Pappan, Some dalits cleaned toilets, some were washermen, some were barbers, some climbed palm trees to make toddy, some were butchers, some had robbery as their job, some cleaned streets .I dont know what percent of dalits did some what decent jobs, but even those jobs had very bad working conditions and they lived like prisoners in their huts. Toilet cleaning came to India only after muslims came here,but the people who cleaned toilets were already downtrodden.I dont know what their earlier job was, but I dont think that it would have been a decent profession. Discrimination by birth and varnashrama have thrown dalits to the current situation.Rest of us should help them by education and destruction of castes.
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