Week 217: Manusmriti Applicability, Social Status in the West, Aesthetic
02/11/2024 - Modern Hindu Content
Welcome to Eternal Path! This week we feature: Manusmriti Applicability, Social Status in the West, and an Aesthetic!
History Highlight: Applicability of Manusmriti on the ground
One of the prominent attack threads of Hinduphobes is to take out-of-context verses from Manusmriti, claim that they apply to all Hindus across all time periods, and point to this “evidence” to claim Hinduism is inherently oppressive. However, even the British colonialists who elevated Manusmriti in their studies of Hinduism to be the definitive law text for Hindus, did not see its tenets strictly applied anywhere.
Source “Varna Jati Caste” - by R Malhotra and V Vishwanathan