Jati endogamy is not the same as "caste discrimination" or "caste hierarchy."
Jatis are cultural groups. Jati endogamy is a form of cultural compatibility for marriage. This is not the same as discriminating against someone in the public sphere and does *not* connote hierarchy.
Jati is a unit of multiculturalism.
Jatis allowed enormous cultural diversity to thrive in India over 1000s of years. Each jati could observe their own way of life without the imposed uniformity of European nationalism or monotheism.
It also allowed integration of outsiders.
This is coming from someone who pretty much broke all rules. I was in a live-in 25 years ago, married outside jati, divorced, have dated across ethnic and religious groups.
But I understand why in-jati marriage preference is a form of seeking compatibility in marriage.
Don't demean the Gurus by calling these Sikh. Sikh guru wrote hymns to the Mother Goddess, to Chandi.
The Khalistan movement is a bastard child of the colonial manufacture of a "Sikh religion" combined with #ISI funding and desire for revenge for the Bangladesh partition.
Let's look at Chandi di Vaar by Guru Gobind Singh.
MacSikhs would rather deny their own Guru's Bani or spin it, just as Macauliffe taught. The "SikhWiki" actually claims this is a "different Chandi, not the "Hindu" Chandi. 🙄
Christians produce atrocity stories like “they did human sacrifice” to justify massacres of the indigenous.
Christians killed about 100 million natives in North and South America alone. More “human sacrifice” has happened for the Christian god around rhe world than any other.
That "success" is superficial. A lot of people are suffering in the West. Drug abuse, psychiatric illness, broken homes, child abuse, this is the story of Western society today.
Christian fundamentalist bigots aren't any less evil than Islamist ones.
This is the attitude that led Christians to murder and enslave millions. As a native chief said, by the behavior of Christians it is clear the Christian god is not superior.
It's called confirmation bias @davidfrum. Since your question wasn't to learn anything—it was to thrust your assumptions and White privilege onto natives.
That Modi spoke of it means the history is not "excluded." Yes, it carries trauma, much like Yezidi cannot "exclude" #ISIS.
And these narrative peddlers deny current violence against Hindus on their festivals, caught on camera, imagine how easy it is for them to spin events from 500 years ago.
Hindu processions were attacked all over the country. Their spin: they asked for it.
The fact is that totalitarian exclusive ideologies are common to Abrahamisms and the Left. They are simply unable to comprehend plural society which does not hold that "non-believers go to hell." All the Eurocentric concepts they apply are simply false.
The Happiness Report is based on the Cantril ladder:
"it asks respondents to think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10 and the worst possible life being a 0. They are then asked to rate their own current lives on that 0 to 10 scale."
This is so flawed. Those who are ranking themselves a 10 could have a very limited idea of what "best possible life" is. They could also be in a stagnant society with very little upside or optimism, in fact, a bit melancholic.
Would an Indic system ever rank happiness like this?