From: "cornel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<Two points only for now: I was not aware that shoemakers in Goa would be classified as "untouchables" in the prevailing caste system and I am not sure this might be right. Hopefully, someone might enlighten us on this particular point.>
Dear more learned colleagues,
re: Shoemakers aka Chamars or Mochis or Sapateiros, The following attached info should be self informative
Without tacit or implied support of the indefensible Apartheid colour (varna) based discrimination perpetrated in the name of Hinduism for the past 3500 years (at least) by the Caucasian Aryans (NOT David Futer, Sonia Gandhi, John Paul II, Annies Beseant, Mother Teresa, Lord Mountbatten, Vasco da Gama, Afonso da Albuquerque, Francisco Xavier, Francisco Colaco etc BUT by the very RSS hypocrites who inappropriately criticise Sonia, Mother Teresa, John Paul II and SFX) , the following info is placed for purposes of reference:
1. http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/ambedkar/web/groups/6838.html
Chamars were an UNTOUCHABLE CASTE found in many regions of India, which is no doubt why Dr. Ambedkar used them as an example. In the Imperial Gazetteer, they are considered a 'functional caste' of leatherworkers; in this and other contexts, the Imperial Gazetteer contains a number of references to them. Here, for example, the Imperial Gazetteer notes the presence of Chamars in Ahmednagar district in Gujarat, along with Mahars, the untouchable caste to which Dr. Ambedkar himself belonged.
2. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/india/rgt-jat.htm
Jats are in the main landlords and farmers and consider themselves to be of a superior stock than any of the so called Untouchable Castes; especially the Chamar Caste which is the dominant UNTOUCHABLE CASTE in the Punjab
3. http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/6253_150430,00160003.htm
The Scheduled Castes are around 14% and Sheduled Tribes around 9% of the undivided Bihar. The most notable among the Scheduled Castes are Bhumij, Chamar, Dhobi, Dom, Dusadh, Musahar, Nat and Pasi.
4. http://www.ambedkar.org/books/tu2.htm
5. http://depts.washington.edu/critasia/rawat_narrative.htm
6. http://www.colaco.net/1/caste.htm
jc
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