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I didn’t know what caste my dad came from until I was like 16, lmao. The only reason I even bothered to ask was because we started talking about it in history class, and I had literally no idea which one we belonged to. Turns out we’re Kshatriyas.
Pretty sure that they just straight up used blackface in some bollywood movies instead of just finding a darker skinned indian.
i was- not shocked, but i guess slightly disconcerted- when I was in India, watching TV shows and films and adverts, how very clearly the heroes and villains were colour-coded. Evil kidnapper about to ravish innocent daughter- you know that dude is going to have dark skin and the innocent daughter light skin. It was barely any time at all before the trend became glaringly apparent to me.