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Dr. Abraham George

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Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

And that tells you that even the poorest, if you provide a very good education and upbringing, they too can succeed, just children from the affluent society.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

And that tells you that even the poorest, if you provide a very good education and upbringing, they too can succeed, just children from the affluent society.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

And that tells you that even the poorest, if you provide a very good education and upbringing, they too can succeed, just children from the affluent society.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

Well, in the United States, you don't have a caste system. You have a class system. And the class system and the racial prejudices people have, racial prejudice of people of darker skin, you identify them by the color. But in India, you don't identify by the color because the rich guy from an upper caste can have a dark color too.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

Well, in the United States, you don't have a caste system. You have a class system. And the class system and the racial prejudices people have, racial prejudice of people of darker skin, you identify them by the color. But in India, you don't identify by the color because the rich guy from an upper caste can have a dark color too.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

Well, in the United States, you don't have a caste system. You have a class system. And the class system and the racial prejudices people have, racial prejudice of people of darker skin, you identify them by the color. But in India, you don't identify by the color because the rich guy from an upper caste can have a dark color too.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

You identify by hundreds and hundreds of years of family status and where they live. In fact, the caste system in India, it traces back to 1,500 years. It's in the Rig Vedas or the ancient scriptures where the various classes or castes were created. The people who owned the land and so on, and they wanted somebody to work for you.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

You identify by hundreds and hundreds of years of family status and where they live. In fact, the caste system in India, it traces back to 1,500 years. It's in the Rig Vedas or the ancient scriptures where the various classes or castes were created. The people who owned the land and so on, and they wanted somebody to work for you.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

You identify by hundreds and hundreds of years of family status and where they live. In fact, the caste system in India, it traces back to 1,500 years. It's in the Rig Vedas or the ancient scriptures where the various classes or castes were created. The people who owned the land and so on, and they wanted somebody to work for you.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

And then you needed somebody else to clean your fecal matter and so on, and latrines and things like that. So they created the cash system for people to be employed in various things. And then they said, okay, if you belong to these lower cash, you can come anywhere near me. And so they created a system, and a little bit of it is in the religion itself.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

And then you needed somebody else to clean your fecal matter and so on, and latrines and things like that. So they created the cash system for people to be employed in various things. And then they said, okay, if you belong to these lower cash, you can come anywhere near me. And so they created a system, and a little bit of it is in the religion itself.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

And then you needed somebody else to clean your fecal matter and so on, and latrines and things like that. So they created the cash system for people to be employed in various things. And then they said, okay, if you belong to these lower cash, you can come anywhere near me. And so they created a system, and a little bit of it is in the religion itself.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

But when India became independent, the government said you cannot discriminate on the basis of caste. the government did not, by constitution, did not eliminate caste. So even today, the caste system exists. And if you discriminate, of course, you can bring someone to court. But if you're born into a certain caste, you stay there. Unless...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

But when India became independent, the government said you cannot discriminate on the basis of caste. the government did not, by constitution, did not eliminate caste. So even today, the caste system exists. And if you discriminate, of course, you can bring someone to court. But if you're born into a certain caste, you stay there. Unless...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

But when India became independent, the government said you cannot discriminate on the basis of caste. the government did not, by constitution, did not eliminate caste. So even today, the caste system exists. And if you discriminate, of course, you can bring someone to court. But if you're born into a certain caste, you stay there. Unless...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

You are very, you break out of it with your education and your job and you go to another city and you live well and nobody knows. And then you are out of the gas. But if you live in the village in the same place, you belong to the low gas.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

You are very, you break out of it with your education and your job and you go to another city and you live well and nobody knows. And then you are out of the gas. But if you live in the village in the same place, you belong to the low gas.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

You are very, you break out of it with your education and your job and you go to another city and you live well and nobody knows. And then you are out of the gas. But if you live in the village in the same place, you belong to the low gas.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

I... chose a place, a remote village away from the cities, where poverty was rampant. That was one of my criteria for establishing this place. And where more than 60% belonged to the so-called, 60 or 70% belonged to the so-called lower caste. And so that is where I established my school.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

I... chose a place, a remote village away from the cities, where poverty was rampant. That was one of my criteria for establishing this place. And where more than 60% belonged to the so-called, 60 or 70% belonged to the so-called lower caste. And so that is where I established my school.