... in the ancient Aryan society in northern India. The members of the three higher varnas were probably mostly Aryans, while the fourth and lowest varna was probably mostly darker-skinned, conquered peoples (Basham 137). 2 However, the original varnas were not the castes that exist today, for there is evidence that people could, and did, change ... possible that they were the indigenous tribes" contribution to the religion that became Hinduism (Glucklich 28). If one believed in reincarnation, one saw one's place in the caste system as determined by one's character in a previous ... the bel...

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