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Aug 16, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Manu Smriti & caste system were created thousands of years ago. Until few hundred years ago, humans all over the world defecated in open areas – forests, roadsides, fields. In India, the European style toilet pits in houses were byproducts of colonialism.
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Manual scavenging of night soil is a recent atrocity in India because toilet pits & man holes did not exist at the time of Maharishi Manu. So there has been misuse of Manu Smriti & caste system to cruelly exploit poverty stricken Indians.