Let it not be misunderstood that today in the Democratic Republic of India, any body — not even an obscure, even maybe obscurantist writer like me — would be foolhardy enough to argue for the Manu Smriti to replace the Constitution of India. That would be sheer political sacrilege today in India… No, none ofContinue reading “Peter Turchin, “Manu-Smriti” and the “distress” of “Elite Overproduction” looming over India – (Part 3 of 3) CONCLUDED”
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Peter Turchin, “Manu-Smriti” and the “distress” of “Elite Overproduction” looming over India – (Part 2 of 3)
The Varnashrama system, as described in Manusmriti and other ancient texts, was structured fundamentally to organize society based on vocational aptitudes and duties, aiming to maintain social order and harmony in accordance with cosmic and moral laws (dharma). (Chapter 1.88-91). This system classified society into four main varnas: Brahmins (priests and teachers), Kshatriyas (warriors and rulers),Continue reading “Peter Turchin, “Manu-Smriti” and the “distress” of “Elite Overproduction” looming over India – (Part 2 of 3)”
Peter Turchin, “Manu-Smriti” and the “distress” of “Elite Overproduction” looming over India – (Part 1 of 3)
In June 2023 — around the time that the terrifying storm of havoc caused by the Corona Virus abated, Peter Turchin, an American social-scientist published a book with a title as terrifying as the great Pandemic itself. The book “End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration” https://a.co/d/6tKhBYZ very soon attracted the attentionContinue reading “Peter Turchin, “Manu-Smriti” and the “distress” of “Elite Overproduction” looming over India – (Part 1 of 3)”
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-41
“varna-ashrama-dharma” “Varna-ashrama-dharma” was outlawed in 1950 in the country by the Constitution of India. It created a deep and fundamental fissure inside the philosophical world-view of the “ubaya-vedaantins” of Tamil Nadu. The trauma became yet another cause for the crisis of identity into which they plunged and it beset them throughout the post-Independence decades…. andContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-41″
Constitution of India and “Varnaashrama Dharma”
I read today 2 very interesting online articles on the Caste system of India . … and they both set me thinking about an earlier book I had read on Manu Smriti. The true picture of Hindu social structure Is ‘Caste’ different from social stratification? Does data support the ‘caste violence’ narrative? After I hadContinue reading “Constitution of India and “Varnaashrama Dharma””