10-27-2006, 03:29 PM
Thank you , Bharatvarsh.I stand corrected. I dont want o harp on this topic, but i remain unconvinced that there was a multiplicity of Castes , going back to BCE.. There were always of course Jatis and Kulas (clans) who called themselves by whatever name .But there was no implication that it had anything to do wtih the Varna system of the ancient indics, which i still maintain was not hierarchical nor by birth alone,, but by aptitude and was the first example of a meritocracy.
