Who were the Shudras?

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Who were the Shudras?
How they came to be the Forth Varna in the Indo-Aryan Society?

Contents

  1. The Riddle of the Shudras
  2. The Brahmanic theory of the origin of the Shudras
  3. The Brahmanic theory of the status of the Shudras
  4. Shudras versus Aryans
  5. Aryans against Aryans
  6. Shudras and Dasas
  7. The Shudras were Kshatriyas
  8. The number of Varnas: Three or four?
  9. Brahmins versus Shudras
  10. The degradation of the Shudras
  11. The story of reconciliation
  12. The theory in the Crucible