The caste system that has prevailed in India for thousands of years is the system of the Chaturvarnya, meaning the four castes. It is described in the ninetieth Hymn of the Tenth Mandala of the ...

But Hindus were not always vegetarians, according to eminent historian D N Jha, who revealed in 2001 that they frequently slaughtered cattle and consumed beef in ancient Vedic times, an era Modi ...

It, however, did not reflect on the social hierarchy despite many scholars tracing the caste or varna system to the Vedas. It states just one sentence on different professions as mentioned in the ...

Arvind Sharma, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on the Aryan Invasion and the Emergence of the Caste System in India, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 843-870 ...