"Castes and Races" consists of three chapters, "The
Meaning of Race", The Meaning of Caste" & "Principles
and Criteria of Art", published in 1982 in England.
It has not been republished in this format, however
the 1998 Indian edition of , "Language of the Self".
{not the 1959 edition} contains all three of these
essays.
I have this edition. I think World Wisdom Books in the
US published the same format in its new edition,
however it must be checked out.
--- brightimperator <brightimperator@...> wrote:
> First, I cordially thank all who promptly and
> instructively answered
> my last question on Guenon, Evola and Hyperborea. (I
> suppose
> Guenon's racial views will remain ambiguous until
> further data comes
> to light. Incidentally, does anyone know in which
> book(s) Guenon
> positively cites Arctic-Aryan theorist Bal Gangadhar
> Tilak? This
> would almost seem to imply on Guenon's part an
> implicit endorsement
> of Tilak's overall worldview. In relation to Aryan
> prowess, Tilak
> concluded that "the vitality and superiority of the
> Aryan races, as
> disclosed by their conquest, by extermination or
> assimilation, of
> the non-Aryan races with whom they came in
> contact...is intelligible
> only on the assumption of a high degree of
> civilization in their
> original Arctic home.")
>
> Recently, due to largely extra-academic, political
> (leftist)
> efforts, what is called "the Aryan Invasion Theory"
> is no longer
> fashionable in academic circles. Evola takes the AIT
> theory and Indo-
> European racial basis of the Indian caste system for
> granted, and
> this forms a key part of his worldview, as he posits
> the Eastern
> Aryans preserved more of the original Hyperborean
> spirit in their
> religious creations (Vedism, Buddhism) than the
> comparatively
> degenerated Western Aryans. The references in the
> Vedic scripture
> to "Indra's white-complexioned friends" and their
> conflict with
> the "lawless, riteless, noseless black Dasyu", etc.,
> seem clear
> enough to me, as do the references in Buddhist
> literature to its
> aristocratic founder's moon-colored countenance and
> deep blue eyes.
> The owner of this list already posted modern genetic
> studies of
> Indians, which tend to support the racial duality
> between the Afro-
> Asian lower castes and the European-like higher
> castess. What I am
> looking for are 1) non-counter-traditional,
> objective studies
> relating to the historical-racial and eugenic
> aspects of the Indian
> caste system and 2) the subjects of castes and races
> and their
> interactions in general.
>
> Relevantly and intriguingly, the well-known
> Traditionalist Frithjof
> Schuon authored a short and extremely hard-to-find
> book
> entitled "Castes and Races". I have yet to acquire
> this probably
> illuminating book, but in "To Have a Center" Schuon
> denounces race-
> mixing as equivalent to destructive caste-mixing and
> as anti-
> Traditional: "Another point to be considered is the
> personal center
> in connection with certain racial factors. If the
> mixture between
> races too different from each other is to be
> avoided, it is
> precisely because this disparity generally has as a
> consequence that
> the individual possesses two centers, which means
> practically that
> he has none; in other words, that he has no
> identity..."
>
>
>
>
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