“Hatred is gained as much by good work as by evil.” — Niccolo Machiavelli
The caste system is detestable and foolish; but this is because human institutions—religion, and the system in question—are detestable and foolish nonsenses puffed-up to hypostatize almost blisteringly apparent untruths which, although offer comfort to the impressionable soul of man, play more upon its aptness at schism than egalitarianism. Surely no one would claim India today to be a model example of social equity amongst classes; and this was surely not the case during the days of the British Raj.
In addressing such gross inequality—gross inequality installed as a sacred obligation, and to which submission assures yonder the gardens of paradise—one could claim the British were oppressive and intrusive with regards to religious—and therefore “untouchable”—constructions.
But it is my belief that in the nation of India, and other places in the world with a tottering social network created by past, and in some cases ongoing inequalities, put in place to run nations and individuals, and which are in these respective places almost always created around religious principles, and in fulfillment of religious obligations, see today such abject poverty—amongst other serious troubles within their borders—because of their not having adopted secular systems presented to them by “evildoers”. Some of the most stable nations in the world today are those who are fundamentally secular in government and their education system; it is because of this that religion cannot NOT be blamed for alongside human stupidity (present in all of us and not just the pious, mind you) playing a roll in the issues present in countries like India today.
The British were justified.
"Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete." — Jean-Paul Sartre
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