Effects Of Caste System In Nepal

Decent Essays
The caste system is a social structure that is determined by birth. A caste system isolates the social groups into different ranks and categories. That means in a society if a person is poor he is going to be poorer, same as in rich person because social status is determined by the caste system. In Nepal, the caste system appeared in the ancient era. Sanskrit creed describes that the caste system has been in practice through ‘Second millennium BC’ (Gellner, D. N. 2007) that divides the social groups based on Hinduism and feudalism.
Caste system was active until 1950 but Government of Nepal officially announced that caste system was illegal in Nepal in 1962. Because of the Hindu subjugated law until 1990 it was vigorous in the society but
…show more content…
The caste system is a religious part (based on Hinduism) so it encourages their own clan. The marital role in society (endogamy) plays to increase the inequality in the society. Mass media and communication manipulates the outsource rumor through their own caste groups. Upper caste people have easy access to take transportation, finance, school and technology to spread the feeling of the caste system into the society. The impact of the caste system on society is severe and harsh. It is ruining individual to the whole …show more content…
Caste system ascertains a threat to social order, stability, peace and harmony in the society. It is the responsible for tradition-bound, conservative, and conformist thinking of a society that fetches barrier of the women empowerment in the society. The practice also divides society into many segments. It may grow conflicts in the different groups and bring the growth of nationalism movement. The caste system is the result of political disunity. In Nepal, it indirectly has become the cause of corruption. Higher caste groups hold the power and monopolize the sources that are why around 80% people are out of good opportunity and education. In my country, it has become the hindrance in getting the social mobility. Some time caste system guides the religious conversions that mean the low population caste groups may be

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The Hindu Caste System

    • 1930 Words
    • 8 Pages

    The Hindu religion have a caste system that they are placed into based on birth. The individual’s placement in the caste system is life long and permanent because they believe their ranking is based off of the sins and deeds of their previous lives. Their belief is that they are “Following the assumed natural law that an individual soul is born into its appropriate environment, Hindus assume an individual belongs to a caste by birth” (Gannon 402). Hindus feel good when abiding by the rules of the caste system and guilty when going against them because the prejudice of the caste system become a part of those individuals conscience.…

    • 1930 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    When Aryans came and conquered India, they brought a structure that had 4 different groups. This structure is called the caste system. The first class called Brahmins consisted of scholars, saints and teachers, and was the highest class in society. Brahmins lead a very strict life and avoid violence and greed. The King even was supposed to respect them and to kill a Brahmin was considered as a crime.…

    • 238 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What is the caste system? List and describe them. The caste system is the division of India’s Hindu society into castes. According to the Hindu religion, membership in a caste is determined at birth.…

    • 652 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Without hope and love blessing a human’s life, humans have nothing to strive for. The caste system produced by the World State divides responsibilities; therefore, the World State expects all members to accomplish their purpose efficiently. The caste system became a key ideal in providing a stable society in World State.…

    • 733 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The democratic society’s goal is to fulfill equal freedom for all, but the reality of the situations threatens that fact with the presence of corruption, poverty, and the discrepancy of power between the classes. In the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the imbalance of power within the totalitarian government controlled caste system exposes the exploitative nature of society, by constructing a stark difference in the classes; to illustrate the struggle of the underprivileged beneath the power of a society concreted in the ideology of capitalist totalitarian. The Caste system within the World state creates a distinct difference in the people, allowing an oppressive drawback for the lower classes. In the World State the Castes…

    • 1253 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Of Caste Systems and Men For centuries people in a society have been sorted into different levels so that the most valuable people receive the best in life and the invaluable people receive close to nothing. This system of social ranking is similar to the farm in Of Mice and Men. The characters have a definite place in their own little world, and a set perception of them depending on their place. The caste system levels include The Kings, The Princes, The Workers, and The Untouchables.…

    • 1313 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Sidhartha Gautama A Prince

    • 1030 Words
    • 4 Pages

    All throughout the history of India, there has been an ‘important’ emphasis on caste, or varna, determining which occupation and class one belongs to. During the Vedic period, five classes were created consisting of Brahmins, the priestly caste, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudras and the Dalits . Not only did this caste system determine occupation, but also determined the financial being of those belonging to that specific caste. Roughly around 563 B.C.E, a prince was born into the Kshatriya class whose name was Siddhartha Gautama. Born into a caste of wealth, power and status, and by the standards during that era, Siddhartha had everything.…

    • 1030 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Control In Brave New World

    • 1591 Words
    • 7 Pages

    In conclusion, the caste system and other parts of the government are essential to…

    • 1591 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Disobeying the king in these societies was equal to disobeying God. Hinduism states that the caste system is God’s way of determining social order. In this religion, if a person tries to move up the caste system, it is taught that they will be reincarnated…

    • 166 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Paleolithic Social Class

    • 1195 Words
    • 5 Pages

    But there was one more group that was not even included in the caste system because they were so far below everyone, and those people were called the untouchables. The untouchables did the jobs that people of the Indian society deemed dirty or unsanitary. Due to the fact that Hinduism was the only religion that was followed in India at the time, everyone lived their lives by the caste system. So the social classes of the Indian society were 100% based off…

    • 1195 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Second Wave Civilizations

    • 598 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The caste system is integrally related to Hindu tradition and is cemented by the religious belief that higher caste individuals were more virtuous in past lives and thus deserving of higher status. Each of the five classes has its own role in society and duties towards the gods. It is not possible to change castes in one’s lifetime, but it is believed that by leading a pure life and completing the rituals and religious acts appropriate for one’s caste, a person can be reincarnated into a higher caste. This religious philosophy creates a greater justification for the existence of the caste system as well as a person’s position in it. Hindu traditional also legitimized the strict patriarchy of Indian society: women’s subordinance and impurity were divinely ordained.…

    • 598 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In India and China, “…caste background continues to define opportunities available to individuals” (Desai & Dubey, 2012). Social castes and classes were a very important part of an ordered society in India and China because they allowed there to be different levels of power, and there could be discipline. A well-organized government and different social castes and classes allowed work to be completed within a shorter amount of time because peasants could do the work, people in higher castes could tell the peasants what work they should do, and a well-organized government could organize projects. A well-organized government could organize large building projects with efficiency. Social castes and classes could also allow there to be opportunities to build new things and to progress.…

    • 833 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    According to a study conducted by Raj Chetty of Harvard University in the early 1970s, they discovered that “mobility has remained remarkably stable,” and that it remains this way for the last 20 to 25 years (Zarrol, “Study: Upward Mobility No Tougher in U.S. Than Two Decades Ago”, 6). This shows that to this day that people are still able to transition into a different social classes and economic classes from the one they were born into in the same percentage as in the early 1970s. However, in stark contrast, India remains to have strict social class called the caste system that continues to dictate a person’s life. In the year 2013, Lavanya Sankaran wrote an article for New York Times having to do with the caste system in India, and at one part she states that the “caste is making its presence felt alive...vibrantly alive when it comes to two significant societal markers--marriage and politics,” (Caste is Not Past).…

    • 715 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Title Have you ever been told that you can’t do something because you’re a girl, or heard someone say to stay away from black people, or even been told that you aren’t right for something just because of how much money you have? All of these things would be social inequality. A social inequality is is the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society. Social inequalities can be based off of anything you classify yourself with.…

    • 617 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Indus people were also divided by a caste system; the caste system defined who you were and what your role was in society. The people were born into these caste system and they couldn’t be changed. The caste system was divided into four categories, the Brahmins, the Kshatriyas, the Vaishyas, and the Shudras. The Brahmins were the highest of the caste system, and they consisted of priests and none other than the king. The Kshatriyas were warriors and aristocrat rulers.…

    • 1492 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays

Related Topics