Caste conceptually overlaps with jāti to the extent of its basis in endogamy. However, the two diverge greatly in how they relate to socio-economic realities. Caste is a wrongly imagined hierarchy, an exploitative pyramid. Jāti is an organic web of interdependent groups.
Caste may be a European *word*, but it is a Hindu *concept*: it merely is a translation of "jāti", nothing else. As I have had to experience up close in the Swastika debate, Hindu often think they can solve real problems on the cheap by means of merely verbal acrobatics.
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@KritaNishchayah
Yes people hate caste so much because they understand it as class with no room for upward mobility whatsoever.
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@infinitchy
A hierrachal pyramid of four varnas are found everywhere online...
What is the reference, who created it. Does it fit according to scriptures?
Is this canard a brainchild of Max- Muller?
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@infinitchy
I would disagree with Elst here.
It becomes so much easier with hindi words in a group discussion of hindi crowd.
We should discuss our realities our problems in our language to understand them better and solve them.
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@infinitchy
Caste were supposed to be parallel. But in practical, it can not be, money and status. A Poor Brahmin had status because he was the teacher, a Rich merchant because he had money, there are 1000s of occupations which have neither money nor status
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@infinitchy
Big big fan of Koenraad Elstji. But here I don’t agree. Caste is NOT merely a translation of Jati. It is a superimposition of one understanding over another. That is a lot of difference.
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