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A system of separated classes that Jiang says Brahmins implement after Buddhism rises, forbidding intermingling and even touch between groups.
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Caste system
A system of separated classes that Jiang says Brahmins implement after Buddhism rises, forbidding intermingling and even touch between groups.
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Jiang calls the process not a military conquest or invasion but a possible cultural genocide in which aggressive newcomers eventually take over by mixed strategies, including intermarriage, killing, enslavement, and peaceful assimilation.
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Jiang says Brahmins responded to Buddhism by creating or implementing the caste system, separating classes so they could not intermingle or touch.
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"So Buddhism follows this system except for one major difference. You don't need the Brahmin to access Nirvana. Okay? You don't need the Brahmin..."
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"Okay? And as the IBC pushes south this will create a new religion called Buddhism. Okay? Alright? But Buddhism is just the major one...."
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"Okay? And this is where we get the caste system from in India. Alright? So this is a more subtle explanation of the Indo..."
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"...there was not much of a genocide. But we had a caste system created because of that."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: the Indus Valley was a peaceful trade civilization whose lost religion may survive as the Indian nostalgia for oneness, false reality, and liberation without the gatekeeper.
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