428 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
rubbed there was produced a man like a charred log, with flat face, and extremely short.
“What shall I do,” cried the man, in distress, to the Brahmans. They said to him, “Sit down (nishida); and from this he became a Nishada.
From his sprang the Nishadas dwelling in the Vindhya mountains, distinguished by their wicked deeds.
By this means the sin of the king departed out of him; and so were the Nishads produced, the offspring of the wickedness of Vena.”
This is a mythological origin of the Nishads. But it contains historical facts. It proves that the Nishads were a low, primitive jungle tribe living in the forests of the Vindhya mountains, that they were a wicked people i.e. opposed to the Aryan Culture. They invented a mythology for explaining their origin and connecting them with the Aryan Society. All this was done in order to support the inclusion of the Nishads into the Aryan fold though not in the Aryan Society. Now there is nowhere any sort of disabilities imposed upon Nishads a low, uncivilized and foreign tribe. Question is why were the disabilities imposed upon the Shudra, who was civilized and an Arya?
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