Can some Jeet expert answer this question.Historically, when lower castes gained power (which happened lots in India's history, especially after famines and political upheavals), why did they remain obsequious to the higher castes? I can understand Kshatriyas deferring to Brahmins because both are so close to the top, but a Shudra or Dalit warlord must find it annoying. Imagine having all that secular power and still being seen as polluted and associated with handling dead bodies and touching poo. I understand there's marriage networks and clan shit. But I'm sure a wealthy Shudra family that's acquired massive wealth and hasn't directly farmed in like 3 generations must be annoyed with being seen as so unclean. Why not do what European peasants did when they seized power after political instability, and just bribe a priest to falsify records? Why not just pay off the Brahmin at the temple to chisel your people in as a more clean caste, use your temporal power to force another caste to handle dead bodies or poo or whatever, and flip the script? Or use coercion to force intermarriage into a higher caste directly. Brahmins seem historically very vulnerable to higher castes so blackmailable. Like couldn't you just selectively ruin the lives of higher castes by making them do polluting work, which tanks all their marriage opportunities and isolates them from their caste forever.It seems like such a weird system in how static it is, and doesn't really change with acquired wealth. I get having castes for endogamy, but the pollution and hierarchy aspect of it just seems so humiliating and pointless. Especially when so often historically they weren't tied to real wealth.
>>219337664Priests are inviolate. You must understand that in Hinduism, priests ARE holy (vs only being conduits to god for other religions). They will remain at the top regardless. Because of that, they will retain and rebuild the caste system if it ever breaks down.
>>219337664Dalits aren't a caste. They're casteless.
>>219337766how did nobody massacre them?
>>219337664Me at the top
>>219337798Somewhat and technically so, but it's hereditary and endogamic isn't it? The Mleccha that sorta existed in the jungle were more "casteless" in the true sense of the word, existing outside of the system but in the same territory, just barely taxed and having a basically parallel society.Point is some dead body handler becomes a charismatic warlord after a period of political instability, he consolidates real actual power, but is still known as the dead body handler by his lineage. Why not leverage wealth and influence to change this? Europeans did it all the time. Some peasant family would pay a priest who would "discover" they're actually descended from some noble house, and he has the documentation to prove it. Which allowed a king to legitimize him as the ruling count or whatever.
>>219337664>human/animal waste removersNo wonder jeets hate them, clearly they aren't doing their jobs.
