[quote=Rustico]Dan,
The fact that Ghandi was confronting a caste system could have necessitated a little more communism from his perspective? [/quote]
Fair enough Rus.
Fair enough.
Weird factoid observation.
While on the border with Pakistan, I was in a group of 3 americans and one israeli.
We were in the back of a truck and our guide was with us.
We were driving through the desert and tiny towns and villages to a larger city (jodhpur maybe?).
Anyhoo, we were low on water. The drivers stopped at the nearest well.
They would not draw water after finding out that the owner was Dalit (whatever the hell that is–a low caste I think). They considered the well unclean.
I asked our guide if he really would not drink water in the desert because of some irrelevant fact.
He shook his head and said “No that’s because they are Hindu. For us Muslims all people are equal and good before God.”
There is a side of religious relations that never showed up on my radar before.
