[john4532452]

> I think a technocratic single-party system (however terrible for liberty) would have never worked in India.

True. Not for the reason of colonialism. In china majority(98% plus) believe they are descendants of the Han dynasty. This unified view of belonging is what allows the single party system.

Total opposite is with India. The Hinduism religious vedic books dictates to segregate the society in the name of varna system(its successor modern day caste system) and even goes as far to restrict the education to only the priestly caste. This is the reason India is far behind in terms of education before the british era. Only after the conquest of British slowly everyone had access to education. This is the reason almost 95 percent of people are first college goers in India.

[naruvimama]

Much of what you say about "Caste" is either Church propaganda or Caste politics.

Large parts of India was under islamic occupation for 300-700 years followed by 100-300 years of Christian occupation. Both were quite destructive, destroying universities, burning down libraries and destroying/looting temples.

Hindus pray to trees, animals and consider everything divine. The misinterpretation of the Varna is a devious christian evangelical agenda.

This flies against the face of numerous example of leaders of the Hindu society and authors who are not part of the clergy. The whole caste system which originates in Europe was transplanted to India to divide and rule.

[qart]

> Hinduism religious vedic books dictates to segregate the society in the name of varna system(its successor modern day caste system) and even goes as far to restrict the education to only the priestly caste

Which vedic books? Can you provide a source? I have skimmed some vedic books, but never came across such restrictions.

> Only after the conquest of British slowly everyone had access to education.

To the contrary, some historians blame the British for worsening the caste system. See https://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/castesystem.htm for example.

[dragonsh]

> Which vedic books?

Rigveda and later codified through Manu smriti which codified this Varna and Jati system and made a class of untouchables [1].

This is one of the reason father of Indian constitution gave up Hinduism and became Buddhist. Current Indian govt actively promotes jati and Varna and perpetrate communal divisions to stay in power and people justify those divisions.

[1] https://legaldesire.com/dr-b-r-ambedkar-views-on-abolition-o...