12-09-2004, 11:02 PM
To add, perhaps superfluously, to what has already been said by other folks earlier, the word originally, I believe, refers to geography rather than race or ethnicity. This tactic of dividing a people based on repetition of a made-to-order theory-turned-to-fact has been practised in other places outside India as well by the Brit. colonialists. I think the Tutsi-Hutu warfare in Rwanda has its early roots in some similar British concoction of an outside privileged race grabbing land/opportunities from the wronged original inhabitants.
<i>(incidentally, I am a distinct entity from Samudra_Gupta, in case there is any confusion by board-members on that account).</i>
<i>(incidentally, I am a distinct entity from Samudra_Gupta, in case there is any confusion by board-members on that account).</i>