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Why did the travellers who came to India, sometimes took social inequalities for granted as natural state of affair? Explain. |
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Answer» Solution :Travellers who came to India sometimes took social inequalities for granted as a natural state of affair and did not CONSIDER it unique because: (i) Biruni who visited India in 11th century had explained the caste system prevalent in the indian society. He did not consider it unique to as such social divisions were prevalent in ancient persia. (i) He admitted the social division described in Brahmanical description, but did notaccept the notion of POLLUTION as social pollution was contrary to the laws of NATURE. (iii) Biruni TRIED to explain the caste system in comparisonwithitsparallelingothersocieties like. (iv)InIslam all humans are treated equally and differ only in their observance piety. While in India on the basis of caste division, all human have to perform different DUTIES. |
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