ஆரிய ஒழுக்கத்தைப் படம் பிடித்துக் காட்டும், `பாபா சாகேப் டாக்டர் பி.ஆர். அம்பேத்கரின் கருத்துக்கள் கீழே தரப்படுகின்றன. இதன் தமிழாக்கம் வருமாறு: ``பிராமணனைப் புனிதமானவனாக மக்கள் ஏற்றுக் கொண்டிருந்தார்கள். அவன் எத்தகைய குற்றங்களை இழைத்தாலும் அவனுக்குத் தண்டனை கிடையாது என்பது தான் பழங்காலத்து நிலையாகும். அவன் புனிதமானவன் என்பதால் ஒடுக்கப்பட்ட மக்களுக்கு மறுக்கப்பட்ட பல விதிவிலக்குகளும், உரிமைகளும் அவன் பெற்றிருந்தான். முதல் அனுபவப் பாத்தியதை அவனுக்கு வழங்கப்பட்டிருந்தது. மலபாரில் `சம்பந்தம் மணமுறை நடைமுறையிலிருந்தது. அங்கிருந்த நாயர்கள், அவர்களுடைய மனைவியர் பிராமணர்களால் ஆசை நாயகிகளாக வைத்துக் கொள்ளப்படுவதை அவர்களுக்குக் கிடைத்த பெருமையாகக் கருதினர்.
Source: (What congress and Gandhi have done to the unthouchables - pp, 205-206) Original Text: Taking the attitude of the people, the person of the Brahmin is sacred. In ancient time, he could not be hanged no matter what offence he committed. As a sacred person he had immunities and privileges which were denied to the servile class. He was entitled to first fruits. In Malabar, where the Sambandham marriage prevails to first fruits. In Malabar, where the sambandham marriage prevails, the service classes such as the Nairs regard it an honour to have their females kept as mistresses by Brahmins. Even kings invited Brahmins to deflower their queens on prima noctis. There was a time when no person of the servile class could take his food without drinking the water in which the toes of the Brahmins were washed. Sir P.C. Ray once described how in his childhood, rows of children belonging to the servile classes used to stand for hours together in the morning to the roadside in Calcutta with cups of water in their hands waiting for a Brahmin to pass ready to wash his feet and take it to their parents waiting to sip it before taking their food. Under the British Government and by reason of its equalitraian jurisprudence these rights, immunities and privileges of the Brahmins have ceased to exist. Nonetheless the advantages they gave still remain and the Brahmin is still pre-eminent and sacred in the eyes of the servile classes and it still addressed by them as ‘Swami’ which means ‘Lord’.
Source: (What congress and Gandhi have done to the unthouchables - pp, 205-206) Original Text: Taking the attitude of the people, the person of the Brahmin is sacred. In ancient time, he could not be hanged no matter what offence he committed. As a sacred person he had immunities and privileges which were denied to the servile class. He was entitled to first fruits. In Malabar, where the Sambandham marriage prevails to first fruits. In Malabar, where the sambandham marriage prevails, the service classes such as the Nairs regard it an honour to have their females kept as mistresses by Brahmins. Even kings invited Brahmins to deflower their queens on prima noctis. There was a time when no person of the servile class could take his food without drinking the water in which the toes of the Brahmins were washed. Sir P.C. Ray once described how in his childhood, rows of children belonging to the servile classes used to stand for hours together in the morning to the roadside in Calcutta with cups of water in their hands waiting for a Brahmin to pass ready to wash his feet and take it to their parents waiting to sip it before taking their food. Under the British Government and by reason of its equalitraian jurisprudence these rights, immunities and privileges of the Brahmins have ceased to exist. Nonetheless the advantages they gave still remain and the Brahmin is still pre-eminent and sacred in the eyes of the servile classes and it still addressed by them as ‘Swami’ which means ‘Lord’.
