Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated further after a top Pakistani official claimed early Wednesday to have “credible intelligence” that New Delhi will carry out a military action against Islamabad within the next two days.

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    1 day ago

    This playbook existed way before Britain did. Even in ancient India.

    We know for a fact that one things works against all of these playbooks - education.

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      11 hours ago

      Just to be technically correct, very little evidence suggests caste system was abused in ancient India, that maybe because figuring out ancient India is hard due to lack of archeological evidence. But most of the horrible abuses of caste system are documented around 900AD and later.

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        Sure but the local monarchies of that time still had strong status and seggregation systems afaik