...The shifting of Aryans from place to place also indicates a strong resistance offered by local people to Aryans. Only when small Aryan tribes combined to form big tribes; they become large enough to subdue the local kings. After subduing the local kings or arriving at a compromise with them, the Rig Vedic people were able to take up agriculture and start living a relatively comfortable life as compared to their original professions of cattle rearing and plundering. The agriculture in Vedas is known as the occupation of defeated people which also indicates a long drawn out low intensity warfare for the control over upper north India. It also tells that the agriculture was the technology of natives of India.
We have already mentioned that with the introduction of agriculture in Vedic society, which they learned from local people; the Rig Vedic dharma called Rita met its demise. This religion was not the same Sanatana dharma as at present but a cosmic or divine order indeed.
With political supremacy in upper north India there was a need to assimilate the original people of India into Aryan thread based communities. The agriculture made it possible to produce more than what the people needed. The socially and politically dominant people extracted the food surplus from others who worked on the land. The introduction of agriculture started the division of Aryan society. This division was new to Rig Vedic people and with it the Rig Vedic society also ended. In addition the Sanskrit also lost its Rig Vedic form. The privileged groups of people emerged in the society. The similarly privileged individuals formed a group which could be called homogenous. After this the Varnas were born. The Varnas were not created in a day. They came into existence one by one through coming together of similar people at the top. They appear in the society in the time sequence of Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas and Shudras. Later one more group also emerged at the lowest end of the society. This was the group of untouchable which now form 20 % of Hindu society or about 200 millions in numbers. These are the wretched lot. Bad luck when it pours for these people then it pours and poura as it has been pouring for last 2500 years and shows no signs of stopping...
Sunday, June 24, 2007
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