CASTE CONTRIBUTED POSITIVELY TO INDIAN ECONOMIC PROSPERITY !!!!

"Historians & Anthropologists have also begun to recognize that caste helped to promote economic activity in a number of ways." Page 6, Middle of paragraph no. 2

Indians will have to reconsider and re-imagine the institution of CASTE in pre-modern India, in  favourable light. Caste is unique to India. Caste Institutions have contributed to economic prosperity of India, and latest 'research' acknowledges this positive contribution of caste institutions

The book 'Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not' authored by Prasannan Parthasarathy , Associate Professor in the Dept of History  at Boston College  and first  published by Cambridge University Press in 2011, states that Caste  was not an obscurantist  institution, as it is made out to be,  blocking the enconomic well-being of the masses, belonging to various castes.Caste is always vilified in post-Independent India. In actuality it was/is a benign institution, and had kept the country from slipping into chaos on many adverse occassions.

Scanned image of Page No.6 of the above book, with the relevant paragraph.

Prasannan Parthasarathy (1) http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/parthasarathi_prasannan.html
(2) http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Prasannan_Parthasarathi

Boston College, History Dept.