Re: Victims of caste system in Punjab
You believe wrong. Caste system started becoming rigid only after 100 AD long after the Indus valley civilization had disappeared. Even during the Chandra gupta maurya’s time, caste was not the abomination we see to day. Megasthenes the Greek ambassador to Chandragupta Maurya’s court classified people of India into seven castes: philosophers, peasants, herdsmen, craftsmen and traders, soldiers, government officials and councilors in his book Indika. In its later stages, the caste system is said to have become rigid, and caste began to be inherited rather than acquired by merit which was originally the case. Caste system was not set up to be inherited but acquired depending on your work capabilities.