Friends, if you look carefully, around 1000 AD, India and Europe were at the same level; same superstitions, same feudal structure, etc. No difference in standard of living. Then Islam gushed into India via the Arab invasion of Sind, while civilization was saved when Turks were stopped at the gates of Vienna. That is the precise moment when India's destiny changed. For the next 1000 years, we were clamped down, while the West lurched around, making numerous mistakes, but at every stage, picking out at least one thorn of barbarism. By the 1800s, they were way ahead and then came industrial revolution and everything else. All that could have been achieved by Indians simultaneously if it had not been for Islamic fascism. It is Muslims who robbed our destiny, the caste system and untouchability would have disappeared in due course just like the European fedual system fell apart. It is because of Muslims that this progress did not happen. Dont blame Brahmins. It is Islam that perpetuated the edifice of violence and barbarism