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Infographic explaining the Varna system of India, with illustrated figures representing the five groups: Brahmin (priests, advisers), Kshatriya (rulers, military), Vaishya (merchants, farmers), Shudra (artisans, servants), and Dalit (formerly called untouchable, outside the caste system). Each group includes a brief description and a labeled example profession. Seventeenth-century illustration from the Mahabharata showing Krishna, with blue skin, driving a white horse-drawn chariot as Arjuna sits behind him holding a bow. Dayananda Saraswati Mahatma Gandhi Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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The varna system
A list of the varnas, featuring images from the manuscript “Seventy-two...
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Krishna and Arjuna
The Bhagavad Gita consists of a philosophical dialogue between Krishna,...
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Dayananda Saraswati
Hindu ascetic and social reformer Dayananda Saraswati sitting in a yoga pose.
"An English Translation of the Satyarth Prakash", Lahore: Virjanand Press, 1908
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian nationalist political and religious leader Mahatma Gandhi, c. 1915.
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The second president of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
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