Originally Published in Madras Courier
Editorial Note
Until the latter part of the Middle Ages, the nomenclature of Brahmin castes exhibited a common inheritance to lower caste names.
Advances in science and technology have always inflicted a death knell on prevalent myths and fallacious narratives, especially surrounding sociology and anthropology. The concept of racial purity and its derivative caste supremacies have long entrenched, enchained, marginalised and oppressed vast populations across the world over several millennia.