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When & why did the characteristics that modern people find most odious about the Indian varna paradigm (noncomensality/"dirtiness" concepts, compulsory endogamy except via anuloma, contempt for lower classes and their work) begin to appear?

by /u/screwyoushadowban in /r/AskHistorians

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