GGR267H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mahatma Gandhi, Khyber Pass, Adivasi
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Why is there a decrease in the successful hunter-gatherer populations. There have to be 3 things that go into the development of castes. Indus rivier: there has to be a disparity between economic groups, hierarchy is enforced and legitimized, ppl suggest that the caste has to with supernatural authority. Plots of land that can support a lot of ppl around the indus life and it used to. Areas of great organization but again not anymore. India developed early on before much of the rest of the world. Its culture though was focused on different ideals than the west. After a major war realized violence was wrong. It may started with the aryan conquering and using it as a way to keep them away from those. In matters if spirit the west is poor, india is the rich. Sanskrit one of the oldest languages if its not the oldest.
