Radical Anthropology on Nostr: 'About the same time that Max Müller – living in England and having never visited ...

'About the same time that Max Müller – living in England and having never visited India – was choosing to emphasise such claims of common Aryan ancestry for Europeans and Indians, his contemporary Phule – living in India and daily experiencing the effects of its caste system – chose to focus on the ‘foreign’ ancestry of the Brahmans. In Phule’s interpretation, the same blood might have run, if at all, in the veins only of Europeans and upper-caste Indians'