Beyond Spirituality - A Divided Nation

Beyond India’s rich spirituality exists a socially, economically and genetically divided society, created, protected and preserved, through a social engineering exercise, called the Caste system, 2200 years ago. West Asian hunters and gatherers who entered India 80K-60K years ago and the ICE AGE driven Central Asian Pastoral people, around 50K-20K years ago, constituted the indigenous population of India. The arrival of Indo-Aryans between 3900-1770 BCE led to selective interbreeding with the above-mentioned population, resulting in the emergence of Spiritual leaders and Literary giants. King Alexander’s invasion in 326 BCE and the Western influence he brought in, emboldened the 10% of elite interbred population, to crystallize a new social order, employing a Vedic religion and its associated Caste system to control the bulk 90% of the working-class population. A divided India, thus, became a ‘cotton-candy’, for the later day Turko-Mongol invaders and the colonial rulers, besides introducing a further division of religion. All these unsolved diversities, over 2200 years, still remain the root cause for the present-day India’s problems, progressively threatening its very fabric.