Hi:
No, Hindu law does not sanction the caste system. What we are talking here
is not Hinduism. We are talk about modern Indian law. We are not talking
Indianism too. We just simply focus on the Indian law other than mix
resultant of various factors in India society.
"Nabi Palsu (')--->( ' )©" <aku@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Wanderer" <not@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> fanabba <fanabba@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> To say that Hindus still practice the caste system is like saying
>>> America still practices slavery. Indian law does not sanction the
>>> caste system.
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> True, but the Hindu law (not the Indian law) sanction the caste system,
> does it not? And we are talking here about Hinduism, are we not? Or are
we
> talking about Indianism? :-))
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>> But you seem perfectly content to impute that past practices of
>> Christians, or things done in the name of Christianity, or simply done
by
>> people who happened to be nominally Christian, are valid today simply
>> because it was done at some point in the past 2000 years, and to cast
>> other unvalidated aspersions. Don't you see your own hypocrisy?
>>
>> Racism and slavery in the United States are illegal, but no sane person
>> asserts that they don't exist because it has been outlawed. Indeed,
just
>> recently an Indian-American couple were sentenced for keeping two
>> Indonesian women as slaves in their home.
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