The Village -12

...The Varna dharma morality also dictates that the untouchables shall behave their divinely ordained status. The untouchable shall not indulge in such acts which offend upper castes and that is dharmically final and settled. He shall never try to become equal to an upper caste; that is the bare bone essential. He shall never indulge in the unethical act of hurting social sensibilities of his superiors. He shall willfully submit to all the humilities heaped upon him, his family and his jati. He shall always be servile to upper castes. He shall possess no ego. He shall not study. He shall not walk in an upright posture. He shall not talk back. He shall never assert himself. He shall never enter into temples. He shall endure with the insults heaped on his womenfolk. That is the culture.

He has committed the involuntary ghastly crime of being born in an untouchable family and goes on to compound his sins by wearing a decent set of clothes and thus treading upon the dharmic egos of upper caste people. He ought to be taught a lesson and he will be. It will be an enduring lesson. It should set up such a depth containing cruel example so that it prevents other untouchables from following the same anti-social path of dishonoring the upper castes by trying to become honorable. He is guilty of tearing the delicate and meticulously built social fabric of the society where preponderous servility passes as proof of social harmony. He is guilty of challenging the social authority. He is impurifying the society by trying to mix his polluted self with others. So a nice piece of ruthless thrashing, at least, would be forthcoming, in order to maintain the divinely ordained Varna dharma. So that in future he desists from such an anti-social act amounting to interference in the cosmic order. He shall not wear away from god assigned nature and duties. He should wear only old, unclean and torn out clothes. He shall extend all his servile cooperation in maintaining the Varna dharma otherwise it should be extracted from him. The punishment also assures the high caste people of their great dharmic heritage. A river of such assuring and soothing feelings runs through upper caste psyches through the system of punishing the untouchables. If the punishments were not deemed to be sufficient then dishonoring their womenfolk would be next in order. And they shall be mute witness to this, cursing their helplessness, destiny and of course Karmas. Only their Karmas are to be blamed for dishonoring of their womenfolk; nobody can be held responsible for this; especially when the high caste people are not answerable to low caste people. Sometimes the upper caste people do not need any flimsy reasons for committing this highly cultural dastardly act. This dastardly act has been long culturalized in Hindu society. Since ancient time, there has been no law and order as far as untouchables are concerned. It has been a Goonda Raj for them from the very beginning. They are like the preys to be hunted upon by the dharmic people....