Highlights

1. Available resources direct the location of settlements/villages, and their growing population in turn dictates the nature of their social relations within the population.
2. Any high-density population has to have an organized way of living together to allow every member to share the resources as equitably as possible, though perhaps not equally.
3. Populations will be denser where the resources are concentrated and not so dense where the resources are widely spread.
4. In such densely populated communities everyone contributes, some stand watch and signal danger, while some fight, some forage, some care for others in the community and so on. Perhaps the bee-hive or an ant hill would be good examples. Without the Queen there can be no hive or nest, but without each of the other insects doing what they each need to do, there can be no hive or nest either.

Quotations for Consideration

“India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all” – Will Durant.

“There was no Caste system in India, till the White invader came. We had only Varnas of 4 classes – a meta-physical framework of intellectuals, Fighters, Skilled workers and Unskilled workers. Jati refers to such broad social units with which people actually identified.” – Capt. Ajit Vadakayil

“I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country. Unless we break the very backbone of this Nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage and therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them to be, a truly dominated nation.” – Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay

“To destroy the civilization of a Nation – Destroy the values it cherishes by destroying the education structure, lowering the status of the Scholars /Teachers till people despise them, – Belittling and denigrating their role models both from history (call it mythology and not worth learning from) and replace all this with a different education system that presents a different value system and other role models” – An Orientalist.

This is what the Porchugese and French have done some extent but it is the British who have systematically and successfully done over two centuries and more, over generations of colonial rule and religious conversions. We need to go back into our own history and rectify their misdoings and not continue on such wrong paths.

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