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I am not usually sentimental and give as good as I
get, but the article below brought tears. what could
have been.....
>
> At its height, tens of families of various castes
> and creed renounced
> it in an attempt to abolish that system and bury
> inhuman
> discrimination. Among them were also Brahmins. The
> new community
> described itself as Ajaat (ones without any caste)
> and called their
> new religion Manavta.
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> Inter-caste marriages then became an easy norm and
> gender parity a
> must. The families, proud of their new casteless
> status, heralded the
> Indian independence with a dream of a society based
> on equality.
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