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To the person who stated that Chandragupta Maurya was of the Chamar caste, please could you specify a reference to prove this statement true. Thank you.
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I saw this in a book. I will try to locate that book.
[edit] Reservation topic
To state that chamar have taken advantage of reservation is a bit offensive(like chamar's have over exploited it).this is a not a fact and shouldbe changed.Many others such as Marasi's,Nai etc have used reservation too so pls change these lines.
Yes Maurya is one more name of Madiga or Chamar. It is well known fact Chamar collected animal skins. They also collected Peacock feathers and feathers of other birds. A group of chamar who collect this peacock feathers are known as Maurya ( those who collect peacock feather). Hence Chandra Guptha belonged to this group. Chanakya who was against Kshtriya found these group strong enough to fight kshtriya. Simillar thing was done by Shivaji maharaj. He used local dalit to build Maharashtra. It is said that one of the main reason Ashok Maurya was not accepted as Emperor by Kalinga was Kalinga Kshtriya could not tolerate Dalit being their emporer. There still set of Maurya people in north. This caste conflict is one main reason for Chandra Gupta Maurya to convert to Jain and Ashok Maurya to convert to Buddhism
[edit] VALMIKI
oi lembher is not a chamar, he is 100% Valmiki! YOU NEED TO GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT!!!!!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.8.139.100 (talk) 00:57, 23 December 2006 (UTC).
