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"The village doesn't approve of love affairs here. They were from the same caste, lived in the same lane in the same village," said another.
The man and the woman belonged to the same Jat community and shared the same gotra - the sub-caste - which made them brother and sister, he explained politely."
caste
/kast/
Noun
Each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status....: "a man of high caste"
The system of dividing society into such classes.
The Jat people (Hindi pronunciation: [dʒaːʈ]) (also spelled Jatt) are a community of traditionally non-elite tillers and herders in Northern India and Pakistan.
As a Rigvedic term, gotra simply means "cow shelter" and more generally "stable, enclosure". The narrowed meaning "family, lineage kin" (as it were "herd within an enclosure") is younger, first recorded around the mid 1st millennium BCE (e.g., Chandogya Upanishad).
These "lineages" as they developed during that time meant patrilineal descent among Brahmins (the Brahmin gotra system), warriors and administrators in Kshatriyas and ancestral trademen in Vaisyas[citation needed].
In present-day Hinduism, gotra is applied to ALL the lineage systems.
greencmp
reply to post by Gestas
As the progressives would say, "but that's just their culture, you're just an ignorant racist".
Gestas
reply to post by GoalPoster
I AM DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT
I AM MAKING MAJOR STRIDES IN THE SELF DEFENSE AND INNER SPACE FIELDS.
I WANT TO START AN ORGANIZATION TO FIX THE PLANET.
FOR THE GREATER GOODedit on 20-9-2013 by Gestas because: (no reason given)
greencmp
reply to post by Gestas
As the progressives would say, "but that's just their culture, you're just an ignorant racist".
greencmp
reply to post by Gestas
As the progressives would say, "but that's just their culture, you're just an ignorant racist".