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3. TIME LINE
Parmenides (515 - )
Parmenides stated that the senses deceive us and, hence, our perception of the world does not reflect the world as it really is. Instead, the real world is something above our apprehension and can only be apprehended through logic. His chief doctrine is that the only true being is "the One" which is indivisible and infinite in time and space.
575 B.C.
Creation of the caste system (India)
The caste system was a social division system in India and contained 4 classes. a)the priest (brahmans) - white colour b)the warrior (kshatriyas) - red colour c)the peasant (vaishya) - brown colour; included
Aryans traders and merchants where trade was not
Non-Aryans considered an impure activity
BRAHMINS d)serf (shudra) - black colour; included dasas and
priests the artisans. They were despised because of their
KSHATRIYAS
warriors contact with the elements and were not allowed to
VAISYAS hear or study the Vedas.
herders, farmers, merchants,
craftspeople The serfs included many of the native people, the
SUDRAS
farm workers, servants, laborers dasas, who were very skilled artisans and those Aryans who had intermarried. A person is born into a Source: Guide to the Essentials of World History,
Prentice Hall, 1999 (adapted) caste and according to Hinduism, the only way to move up in the caste system in the next lifetime is to do good in the present one. Professions are heriditary in the caste system and reflect a division of labour. The caste system also has taboos on
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| SR No. | 007303 |
| Book Title | Development of Hinduism |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | M M Ninan |
| Publisher | M M Ninan |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 582 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 45 MB |