Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - Does Pakistan, the birthplace of ancient Indian civilization, have a caste system?

Does Pakistan, the birthplace of ancient Indian civilization, have a caste system?

There is no caste system in Pakistan, that much is certain.

It is well known that the reason why India and Pakistan were partitioned was because India was dominated by Hindus while Pakistan was dominated by Islamists.

The paradox is that the roots of ancient India are actually all in today's Pakistan, the so-called Indus River, which is the mother river of Pakistan, but even more so, the birthplace of ancient Indian civilization.

And all this changed after the Aryan invasion of India. The creators of ancient Indian civilization, the Dharavitas, became the lowest level of the caste system, the Shudras, and even included in the four castes outside the lower class of people known as the so-called "unacceptable untouchables", also known as "Dalits".

Specifically, these low-caste people are not only discriminated against and restricted to the most menial occupations, such as toilet-pulling, cleaning, begging, etc., but the path of upward mobility for these people is completely eliminated.

At this point in time, the process of Islamization began when foreign Islamic rulers such as Mamluks and Mughals conquered India. But the cultural roots of Hinduism were extremely stubborn, especially among the upper castes, and they were not going to give up the caste system.

So after repeated battles between Islam and Hinduism, Hinduism eventually prevailed, and the low-caste people, who were originally discriminated against, chose Islam in desperation.

Why? Although many people are quite critical of Islam, especially after 9/11, the fact is that although Islam is quite hostile to infidels, it advocates treating the world kindly and lovingly, treating all members of the religion as equals, opposing the oppression of the rich, and giving relief to the poor and the needy, among other things.

Islam's prophet Mohammed relied on such teachings to gain the support of the people, and thus overcame the polytheistic religions that were once prevalent in the Middle East and the Mediterranean to establish a great empire that swept across Europe, Asia and Africa.

The propaganda that "all Hindus are equal", as opposed to the discriminatory teachings of Hinduism, naturally attracted a large number of low-caste Hindus to convert to Islam, and the Islamic doctrine of mutual assistance between believers has led to a sharp increase in the number of Islamists in India.

The two different religious cultures have led to repeated clashes between the two, resulting in countless bloody conflicts. The current Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Moody, was once sanctioned by the United States for his support of Hindu attacks on Islamists in the Punjab, and it was only when he came to power that the sanctions were lifted, or else he would not have been able to go to the United Nations General Assembly!

So how can Pakistan have a caste system when the root cause of the change in Pakistan, a country that is the birthplace of the ancient Indian civilization, from a Hindu culture to a major Islamic country, was supposed to be to fight against the caste culture of Hinduism?

But the caste system, after all, extended for thousands of years, and many things still left traces in Pakistan. But overall it's still much better.