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"Mr President, it is wonderful with all the economic problems in Europe that we have time to start lecturing in quite precise terms South Asia and East Africa on aspects of caste discrimination, as though we had no other problems. Actually, caste discrimination is a problem that is being eroded with every passing year by economic development and by the spread of education and capitalism.
I think it was Thomas Babington Macaulay, when he was briefly an Indian administrator, who said that railways were the greatest destroyer of caste. That process of destruction has accelerated since Indian independence because India – being a common-law-based democracy – elevates the individual over the state. That allows very little room for a system that imprisons people by circumstances of birth. As we have heard, it was a while ago that the republic had as its president a Dalit. This is something that did not need lecturing from outside. We might be better advised to look at what happens when economic growth goes into reverse. It is not a problem the Indians are having, but it is a problem we are about to have."@en1
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