Caste system in India

One of the worst evils of Indian Society is the Dowry System. The word 'Dowry' means the property and money that a bride brings to her husband's house at the time of her marriage. It is a custom that is prevalent in all the sections of our society in one form or the other. In ancient India daughters had no rights of inheritance to their family's wealth. In order to ensure financial security to their daughter’s parents gave expensive moveable property like gold, diamond, jewellery, silver…

Women only seem to appear if they have ever caused trouble. According to Confucianism women had to respond to the needs of their closely related men. Women also had to obey their husband and their grown sons. A lot of women did not have names. Women really had no legal rights. The social class structurein ancient China was very important. Chinese people believed that people were expected to behave according to their social position. This belief was reinforced by the Chinese philosopher Confucius…

India is a great country filled with rich culture and interesting people. These people might seem strange and their practices taboo to western society, but all in all they are people. They view western society just as strange; the only true difference that separates people is where and how they were raised and the effects that their environment has on their mentality. How we live life and interpret the world is mostly based off of our experiences, so we should not dismiss another culture and…

Indonesian citizens did not form Indonesian culture alone. Influence from around the world helped shaped Indonesian culture. One country that influenced the majority of Indonesian culture was India. Indian explorers were sent to Indonesia for the sole purpose of trade. Trade between India and Indonesia opened a pathway for Indonesians to be aware about the different aspects of Indian culture through Indian Hinduism. Indonesia’s awareness of Indian Hinduism influenced the order of Indonesian…

exploitation and social inequality of the outcastes, Anand has presented the real problem of society. He has condemned injustice and exploitation. He delineates a definite grasp of the psychology of untouchables and high caste Hindus. In his dealings with the sweepers, the high caste Hindus possess the feeling of strong class superiority and this feeling refuses to provide equal position to untouchables and accepts them as animals. It is this that…

had tests and Universities open to anyone who could afford it. These tests determined if you could work for the government or not. Meanwhile Mauryans had Caste, to obtain the knowledge needed to work for the government you must have been born into a certain Caste. To summarize China let people’s knowledge define their place in society, while India let family determined people 's place. We can also assume that the Han had better control over their people and government, because unlike the…

political philosophy. Living under a government with Buddhist values was a drastic difference from the uses of force and demanding policies encouraged by the Arthashastra. Part of the success of promoting Buddhism and Buddhist values throughout Mauryan India was the fact that though Ashoka made Buddhism the state religion, he remained tolerant of all religions. People took to Buddhism on their own not by force. Like Emperor Wu’s, a large part of Ashoka's court consisted of priests and ministers,…

Caste based discrimination is an often denied social reality of higher education campuses in India. The blindness to caste exists not only in conversations amongst students and faculty but also exists in academic curriculum and the administration of a University. Throughout my studies in law and some part of social work education, I too grew up being blind to cast. While some of the blindness was deliberate, most of it was unconsciously convenient. Such blindness has even manifested itself in…

The caste Hindus debarred untouchables from entering and worshiping deities in the temples; they were stoned, insulted, disgraced and dishonored in the streets. Even elected Parliament members are assaulted Yet they worshiped deities outside the temples. The poor untouchables believed by doing so, sooner or later their fate will change, albeit rubbed their forehead at the entrance of temples. However, the lines on the brow disappeared and no ending to the misery and sufferings since they are…

decline of the Mughal Empire, the British East India Company took advantage of the “military fiscalism” present in India. Soldiers would pay taxes to their kings and conquer more land for him, raising more soldiers in the process. Because the British were limited in how many of their own troops they could send to India, they created sepoy regiments of native Indian soldiers, but trained them in the European style. Through the enforcement of a subsidiary system, the kings were forced to surrender…