The Pros And Cons Of The Indian Caste System

A group of men gang-raped a forty two-year-old Dalit women and burned her alive after she, her husband, and two sons had been held in captivity and tortured for eight days. This injustice occurred because the woman’s son fell in love with the torturer’s daughter, who happened to be of a higher caste. “The local police knew of the whereabouts of the Dalit family, but they did nothing because the rapists” came from a higher caste family (Mayell n.pag.). Even with decades of struggle to end discrimination, India today continue to face these problems.
Historically within India, the main ruling force for distinguishing people’s class, religion, region, and language has been the Indian Caste System. Although all societies have many forms of differentiating these in their culture, it turns into a problem when a society exclusively relies on rankings of the class to give people access to resources available …show more content…
However, as the structure has been present in India for well over three thousand years, several discriminatory practices and traditions have remained in place. For instance, most of the Indians who practice traditional beliefs have arranged marriages in which spouses have been determined at birth through an agreement between the two families (Antelava n.pag). These arranged marriages are only allowed to take place within the same class, thus one cannot marry into a higher class structure. These traditional practices usually take place in rural villages and towns throughout India rather than the modernized urban areas in which people do not actively express traditional beliefs (Ninian, 189). In the metropolitan areas, inter-caste marriages take place and occur relatively often, but people do continue to take into consideration their future spouse's caste status, as an informal caste system still