Hi Antonio, Yes, poder-chardi and kasti bamons were certainly pejoratives, to establish a pecking order amidst the pecking order.
To Dr Teo, I have no evidence for anything, I am just shooting the breeze on the forum and learning as I go along. If I have mispoken, please do forgive me. Best, selma --- On Sun, 2/22/09, Antonio Menezes <ac.mene...@gmail.com> wrote: For them caste meant > everything. It is > because of this > rivalry that some bamons started accusing some charddis > who had no class ( > education and > wealth ) of being poder charddis . There is no such thing > as bamon charddi. > The charddis also > called some bamons who had no class as kashti bamons.