Poor article, even by the already low standards of The Economist. In effect, trying to tell business leaders they don't understand their market as well as the Economist column-writers do. > Firms peddling anything much…
They didn't. Moreover, the British stopped hiring them towards the end of the century in favour of the (as the British classified them) "martial castes". Please don't extrapolate from just one battle with a few hundred…
It does not get emphasized enough, but the caste system in India is a very very complicated issue. Any effort create a simple mental model for it (say, by mapping it to racial apartheid) would not take one closer to…
Poor article, even by the already low standards of The Economist. In effect, trying to tell business leaders they don't understand their market as well as the Economist column-writers do. > Firms peddling anything much…
They didn't. Moreover, the British stopped hiring them towards the end of the century in favour of the (as the British classified them) "martial castes". Please don't extrapolate from just one battle with a few hundred…
It does not get emphasized enough, but the caste system in India is a very very complicated issue. Any effort create a simple mental model for it (say, by mapping it to racial apartheid) would not take one closer to…