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I'm an "untouchable" at the bottom of the Hindu caste system in say, 1600. What stops me from simply going to a far away town where nobody knows me and claiming to be Brahmin, at the top of the caste system. Or at least, anything higher than untouchable.

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Would The Offspring of Roman Soldiers Whom Had Slept With Local Women In The Provinces They've Conqured be Given Citizenship/Any Rights of Romans. NSFW

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I'm an "untouchable" at the bottom of the Hindu caste system in say, 1600. What stops me from simply going to a far away town where nobody knows me and claiming to be Brahmin, at the top of the caste system. Or at least, anything higher than untouchable.	8784
Would The Offspring of Roman Soldiers Whom Had Slept With Local Women In The Provinces They've Conqured be Given Citizenship/Any Rights of Romans. NSFW	154