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Absolute lies. The 1843 act was to prevent the east India company from keeping slaves. Thats a western entity. There are clear records of actual Indian history where slavery was explicitly banned.

Even if there was something, like I said, its nothing different than what others had at that time. So this whole obsession about stratification in Indian society seen as something unique is baffling.



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