Friday, October 25, 2013

Muslims are not different from the Hindus—caste inequality/discrimination is as prevalent and rooted in the society as in the Hindu society. Interestingly, the social inequality—caste inequality in the form of Ashraf-Pasmanda division—clearly add to class inequality as all the working class forms the Pasmanda as a whole and all the propertied and landed class, which historically cotrolled wealth and power in the form of zamindaari and are still controlling the power structures as they are on the upper rung of power structures, are in fact the Ashrafiya. Muslim society is the classical example which shows how caste inequalities add to class inequalities.

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