भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

themselves acquainted with our thoughts on this subject may profitably read
the book, “Janmajat Jatyutchhedak Nibandha” (The Eradication of the
Parentage-dominated Caste-system). Here, while describing the religious
aggression of our foreign enemies, we shall discuss it only so far as it is
absolutely necessary to do so.
386. First of all, it should not be forgotten that this caste-system must have
facilitated the stupendous consolidation and remarkable stability of the
Hindu Society under certain peculiar circumstances and in particular
contexts. In evaluating it, it would be ungrateful only to point to the
eventual harm that it has caused in its later stages.
387. It must also be admitted that the Hindus of those times created, or
voluntarily allowed to be created, this caste-system with the sole object of
protecting their racial seed and blood, preserving their caste-life and
tradition, and keeping them absolutely pure from any contamination.
388. The structure of the caste-system was based on the principles of
heredity, of the economy based on the division of labour, of social co-
existence and of social ethics, so far as these principles were comprehended
by the writers of different ‘Smritis’. Thousands of years have rolled by, the
Hindu nation has faced innumerable calamities and catastrophes, yet the
hold of the caste-system and the influence that it has wielded upon billions
and billions of Hindus throughout these tens of centuries, could never have
been possible, if the roots of this birth-dominated caste-system had not gone
deeper into the very foundation of this colossal edifice of the Hindu society.
The Hindu faith—that the religious duties prescribed for the particular
castes and sub-castes like Pariyas, Bhangis, Kolis, Bhils were the pious
ways of attaining their earthly welfare, and heavenly bliss and Godly grace
for them—would never have otherwise remained so steadfast through all
these perilous centuries, if the lifeblood, which ran through the veins of the
Hindu Society, apparently most heterogenous and miserably disorganised,
had not animated its diversified elements with some undying and unifying
force with a certain conciousness of its true self.
388A. This powerful unifying national sentiment which so unmistakably
held together these different and apparently autonomous elements of the
Hindu society and fused them together was HINDUTWA! AND HINDU
DHARMA.
389. What we should like to call today the seven native shackles, viz.
Untouchability (स्पर्शबंदी) ban on dining together of the people belonging