Class And Caste System Essay

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Class and caste system are the outcome of our society which constructed issues and

maintain miscellaneous forms of stereotypes. Class system is also categorized under financial

fortification while it comes under religious values. This differentiation of society with namely

classification is totally man made. It has been prolonged and promoted since ages of our society.

The repercussion of class and caste system is not auspicious and does not bring

any good for the society rather ruins the overall harmony. It creates upheaval in social and

political sphere. The common characteristic of both class and caste system is to suppress the

weaker. In class system, those who are in the jurisdiction, intend to suppress the people who are
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This discrimination and subjugation as if becomes the eternal destiny of the people

who unfortunately fall in the lower class or caste. The most saddening part of the caste system is

the formation of “untouchables”, the last kind of the caste system, who are assumed to be

abominable and despised just because by born they come of a socially constructed lower group.

If we dig deep down the book “Middle of Silence”, we will also find scenarios which resemble

these practices. In the book, the husband Ajith, though handicapped and depends on his wife, but

his so called arrogance and pride regarding his class do not fall apart. Though it was pretty hard

for Nandha to arrange two square meals a day and other commodities for her husband, Ajith did

not permit Nandha to go to the streets and work as a sweeper. According to Ajith, it will tarnish

his reputation as he comes of a higher class than Nandha’s and Ajith’s wife being a sweeper does

not correspond with his class. Moreover he did not want others to be acquainted with this fact as

they will undermine his state then and hence mock at him. So, here we can infer that this sort

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