... jatis are grouped into four large clusters called varnas, which is loosely translated as "color". Whether this refers to skin color or to attributes of character depends on one's perspective. Kelly Ross, a non-Hindu college philosophy instructor, believes that "these sound suspiciously like skin colors; and, indeed, there is an expectation in India that higher caste people will have lighter skin ... ...

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... the war he served on board HMS Lion and Elizabeth. Mountbatten remained in the Royal Navy and on the outbreak of the Second World War was captain of the destroyer Kelly. Winston Churchill appointed Mountbatten head of Combined Operations Command on October 27 1941. The decision by Churchill to promote Mountbatten to vice admiral, lieutenant general and air marshall ahead of ... ...

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