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Jiang’s description of India as a case where conquerors took the top of society while locals remained below rather than being fully genocided.
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Caste system as conquest settlement
Jiang’s description of India as a case where conquerors took the top of society while locals remained below rather than being fully genocided.
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"...in that time were more peaceful. So they came to a settlement where the new conquerors would be at the top of society. And..."
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"Okay? And we know because if you look at the upper caste, they all spoke Indo -European. If you look at the lower caste..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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