Casteism in the Bhagavad Gita?
Castesim in the Bhagavad Gita? I have seen people trying to say that the Bhagavad Gita is promoting casteism, which is ironic because out of the 18 chapters of the text, only 10 or so have remotely anything to do with caste, and that too they don’t say anything about them being immutable or mutable or whether to beat lower castes up for minor offences and such. Anyway, in order to tackle this we need to go verse by verse and perform the requisite exigesis. While doing so, I will be using my hermeneutical principles of Hinduism, which you can read about here: https://bharatasamskriti.blogspot.com/2024/03/new-hermeneutical-principles-for.html The main thing I want to establish is Episodic Contextualization and Reality Based Contextualisation. We must in interprate the words of the Bhagavad Gita in light of the larger story and setting that it is found in, as well as in the social and historical realities of that time. Duty as a Kshatriya Bhagavad Gita 2.31-38 are the first set of