Venkatesh Rao@vgr@GabrielDuquette @ctbeiser historically caste system in India was somewhat fluid and defined by what you did, not who you were.10:23 PM · Nov 13, 2015
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Nov 13, 2015Replying to @vgr@GabrielDuquette @ctbeiser Hardened slowly starting ~300 AD, then really hardened with colonial bits turning maps into territories1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Nov 13, 2015Replying to @vgr@GabrielDuquette @ctbeiser This is a good book on how it happened (though partisan, blames Brits more than deserved) http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7191.html…