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Post by Petrichor Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:20 pm

http://www.stanford.edu/~avner/Greif_228_2007/Freitas,%20Kripa.%202006.%20The%20Indian%20Caste%20System.pdf

1. I think the most hated aspect of the caste system is the 'inheritance' factor - that caste is decided at birth.
2. The modern day adaptations of the caste system is a e-Harmony like 'attribute set' which stratifies the modern day population into different interest groups. Castes could now be rendered into sharing a common set of hashtags.
3. The occupational segmentation of the modern world has done much to do away with caste system.
4. Inter-caste marriages are the surest way of diluting 'pure' traditions that were passed down for generations through history. It is not clear if *traditions* have indeed survived past, say, 200 years.

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Post by Rishi Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:13 am

This paper has a lot of mathematical equations. So whatever the author says must be true.

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Post by Idéfix Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:35 am

Rishi wrote:This paper has a lot of mathematical equations. So whatever the author says must be true.
lol!
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