AN INSIGHT INTO INDIAN CULTURAL ORGANIZATION The class-caste system is overlooke

AN INSIGHT INTO INDIAN CULTURAL ORGANIZATION
The class-caste system is overlooked as *the least fragile social, economic, political order* because organization is distributed and pushed down to the functional level and so the hierarchy can’t be captured as it can in the east and the west.

The ME is equally difficult to capture but organization is at the family level ending the utility of class division of labor.

To some degree it is useful to think of India’s organizing principle as military duty applied from ranks to castes, enabling continuous adaptation without the possible fragility of hierarchical orders.

From this perspective, indian civ is in a ‘sweet spot’ above the middle east in cooperation and production, and below the east and west in fragility.

(The west is most fragile but most adaptive, China is less fragile than the west, but more fragile than india, but like india pays high cost of stagnation, though because of the rigidity of the bureaucratic hierarchy (despite meritocracy) vs rigidity of the caste system (and problem of blocking meritocracy).)