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Transcribed Image Text:"I see them almost every day," Maurya now says of his attackers. "They roam around freely."
Maurya has agreed to meet me-after dark-in the dirt courtyard of his village house. He is a tall,
handsome man of 52, his hair white, his face lined with worry. On a chilly February night, he pulls
a bathrobe tight around him. His wife moves in the shadows preparing tea. They live with the rest
of their caste on the southern end of the village, downwind of the upper caste families who believe
that they must not smell Untouchables. The court case against his attackers drags on, Maurya
explains in a tense, level voice. He tries to sound positive: Untouchables use the good pump now;
one of his sons has advanced to college, the first of his caste from the village. But once Maurya
confesses that he is still scared of his attackers, his voice rises-and his wife turns up the radio
inside to mask it. "The government refuses to address problems like this business about the well
because they say the caste system legally does not exist. Well, look around you. People treat
animals better than we do. This is not natural. We're only asking for human rights." His voice
grows even louder to beseech the surrounding night: "Why did the gods let me be born in such a
country?" To be born a Hindu in India is to enter the caste system, one of the world's longest
surviving forms of social stratification. Embedded in Indian culture for the past 1,500 years, the
caste system follows a basic precept: All men are created unequal. The ranks in Hindu society
come from a legend in which the main groupings, or varnas, emerge from a primordial being.
From the mouth come the Brahmans-the priests and teachers. From the arms come the
Kshatriyas-the rulers and soldiers. From the thighs come the Vaisyas- merchants and traders.
From the feet come the Sudras-laborers. Each varna in turn contains hundreds of hereditary
castes and subcastes with their pecking orders.
1. Why does GM remain positive even though his Caste is the lowest class?
2. Why do you think he questions the gods?
3. Write a prediction about what may happen to G. M. for refurning to the village?
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