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It is most interesting to see how Nietzsche situates Jews in this context: he refers to them as a “race of Chandalas” (Tschandala-Rasse), a concept gleaned from his readings of Jacolliot. The term originates in the Sanskrit candāla, which refers to the lowest class of India, the outcasts or untouchables, who actually occupied a status below that of the four formal castes of brahma (sacerdotal), ksatriya (nobility), vaiśya (farmer or merchant), and śūdra (slave). A child of a brahma father and a śūdra mother, a candāla was considered to be the lowest of humans.14 The word literally means “the worst among,” and is from the root canda, meaning “fierce,” “violent,” or “cruel.” The candāla were literally “out-cast,” in the sense of being so low as to be outside of the caste system itself. While Nietzsche correctly understands the caste divisions, as indicated in The Twilight of the Idols: “The task here is to raise no less than four races at once: a sacerdotal, a military, a commercial-agricultural, and finally a race of servants, the Sudras,”15 and Jacolliot does, as well: “The fours castes are: the Brahmans, or priests; the Kshatria, or kings; the Vaisias, or merchants and farmers; the Sudras, or slaves,”16 both prefer to see a rigidity and inflexibility in the Indian caste system that guards against cross-caste intermarriage and preserves an Aryan “purity,” especially in the upper caste of Brahman.
It is most interesting to see how Nietzsche situates Jews in this context: he refers to them as a “race of Chandalas” (Tschandala-Rasse), a concept gleaned from his readings of Jacolliot. The term originates in the Sanskrit candāla, which refers to the lowest class of India, the outcasts or untouchables, who actually occupied a status below that of the four formal castes of brahma (sacerdotal), ksatriya (nobility), vaiśya (farmer or merchant), and śūdra (slave). A child of a brahma father and a śūdra mother, a candāla was considered to be the lowest of humans.14 The word literally means “the worst among,” and is from the root canda, meaning “fierce,” “violent,” or “cruel.” The candāla were literally “out-cast,” in the sense of being so low as to be outside of the caste system itself. While Nietzsche correctly understands the caste divisions, as indicated in The Twilight of the Idols: “The task here is to raise no less than four races at once: a sacerdotal, a military, a commercial-agricultural, and finally a race of servants, the Sudras,”15 and Jacolliot does, as well: “The fours castes are: the Brahmans, or priests; the Kshatria, or kings; the Vaisias, or merchants and farmers; the Sudras, or slaves,”16 both prefer to see a rigidity and inflexibility in the Indian caste system that guards against cross-caste intermarriage and preserves an Aryan “purity,” especially in the upper caste of Brahman.
