History Of Caste

[Husky]

Mongolians who invaded China installed a caste system in China (complete with one subgroup literally named - and I quote - "untouchables").

Wait for it. There was an actual pecking order (a literal caste and casteist system). And it looked like so:



#1 Mongolians

#2 Fair people (any visiting Euros too)

#3 N Han Chinese

#4 (because they were the last to be conquered S Han Chinese.

Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire

By Paul D. Buell

p. 240



SEMU "Various categories." The semu were one of the legally-defined social groupings of Mongol China (q.v.). The others were Menggu (q.v.), "Mongols," Hanred (q.v.), "North Chinese," and Nanren (q.v.), South Chinese," the latter having the lowest status. The semu were generally Central Asians and Westerners, and ranked just below the Mongols themselves, but above the Hanren. This system was unique to Mongol China and was not found elsewhere.

Explains certain Mongolian admixture with Euro and C Asian populations.

(Which apparently was already ongoing about 2000 years BP.)





Q: despite the pre-emptive demurs in the final line, did they repeat this elsewhere? Or did the islamised Mongols/Turks who invaded India - and left behind so many useless Khans - did they multiply the number of community substructures in India's social fabric to produce the large number seen in Alberuni's time? (Which then was multiplied further in the colonial period.)



[Oh wait, IE-ists like to claim caste classification is their invention, and insist that IE entities (C-Asian Iranians say) "must have taught" the Mongolians this too. (Wonder if they taught them about the horse? Can't have anyone else having a horse culture, after all. At least Chinese civilisation can't be derived from C-Asian Mongolian horse-riding nomads and Turkic, Tatar hordes invading left and right, whereas Indian and Persian civilisations "can only be" explained by C-Asian horse-riding all-invading barbarians playing nomads too.

But how did I forget? IE-ist and arch-racist Victor Mair is hard at work trying to derive Chinese civilisation from C-Asian oryans too.]





Anyway, back to the topic:



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semu

The Semu categories are pointed to people who come from Central and West Asia by Yuan dynasty, it is told that there are 31 categories among them. They had come to serve the Yuan dynasty by enfranchising under the dominant Mongol caste. The Semu were not a self-defined and homogeneous ethnic group per se, but one of the four castes of the Yuan dynasty: the Mongols, Semu (or Semuren), the "Han" (Hanren in Chinese, or all subjects of the former Jin dynasty, Dali Kingdom and Koreans[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]) and the Southerners (Nanren in Chinese, or all subjects of the former Southern Song dynasty; sometimes called Manzi). Among the Semu were Buddhist Turpan Uyghurs, Tanguts and Tibetans; Nestorian Christian tribes like the Ongud; Alans; Muslim Central Asian Persian and Turkic peoples including the Khwarazmians and Karakhanids; West Asian Jewish and other minor groups who are from even further Europe.

Note the christian Ongud:



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ongud

The Ongud, (Mongol: Онгуд, untouchables) were Mongols active in Mongolia around the time of Genghis Khan (1162–1227).[1] Many members were members of the Church of the East.[2] They lived in an area lining the Great Wall in the northern part of the Ordos Loop and territories to the northeast of it.[1] They appear to have had two capitals, a northern one at the ruin known as Olon Süme and another a bit to the south at a place called Koshang or Dongsheng.[3] They acted as wardens of the marches for the Chinese Empire to the north of the province Shanxi.[4]

(Italics as in original)



So even though they were caste#2 for being semu as per the wacky link on Semu,

the translation of Ongud is "untouchables"?

Then again, maybe there was a special exception for christians=terrorists that made them not place at #2 as Semu?