“Recognising the impact the book has made by revealing and asserting that Manu’s four-tier Caste System is for the Hindus who are only 15 per cent of the population of the present-day India. The castes of the Bahujan – the native peoples of India who are 65 per cent of the population – are their national (ethnic) identity. The Aryan, who conquered and colonised India 3,500 years ago, imposed the Brahminic Caste System, Untouchability and Apartheid on the native peoples by embracing their gods but at a level lower in hierarchy than their own and thus extending their accursed racist system and giving it religious sanction.
The book transformed the Indian political scene by urging Dalits to renounce their Hindu identity but feel proud of their ethnic identity (jati) and vote for their jatwalas in elections. The book empowered the long oppressed Bahujan and helped them gain prominence in politics and share in power.”
