Caste

Abstract:’ The Refugee’ a one act play was written by Asif Currimbhoy.The play portrays the miserable condition of the refugees from East Bengal on hand and on the other hand the play throws ample light on the effects of the refugee problems in social life in India during 1971.Asif combines the major issues with other problems like communalism as it is also led by other issues. It suggests that one problem gives way to other problems. The present play focuses all the issues due to the influx of…

Such a caste system was built to further separate different races so that, as Haney Lopez terms, people would see other races as individuals who “are not like us”. Although slavery was ended after the Civil War, a new era was ushered in under Jim Crow under which…

ANNIHILATION OF CASTE THE UNDELIVERED SPEECH OF Dr. AMBEDKAR “Annihilation of Caste is B.R. Ambedkar’s most radical text. It is not an argument directed at Hindu fundamentalists or extremists, but at those who considered themselves moderate, those whom Ambedkar called “the best of Hindus”— and some academics call “left-wing Hindus”. Ambedkar’s point is that to believe in the Hindu Shastra’s and to simultaneously think of oneself as liberal or moderate is a contradiction in terms. When…

The status-caste exchange theory is to marry in terms of desirable traits; a desirable man marries a desirable woman based what she can provide in return (Hou & Myles, 2013). In regards to interracial marriage, the status-caste exchange theory assumes that the skin colour or ethnic origin as the desirable trait. Lighter skin colours are more desirable compared to darker skin colours, so the value of a partner is based on their skin colour or ethnic origin. If their socio-economic statuses were…

Chapter 7: The Caste System This system of dividing a society into different segments has been considered as the most negative aspect of Hinduism. When it comes to magnitude, the Hindu caste system has done greater damages to a greater number of people compared to the system of slavery implemented in Western countries or even the witch-hunting practices of ancient Europe. This system was invented by Vedic societies and supported by law makers. The people who belonged to the upper segments found…

CASTE CONFIGERATION IN MUNSHI PREMCHAND’S GODAN (THE GIFT OF COW) PREMCHAND believes the greater truth that a writer has a social function to show and to perform; he had adopted and taken realism as a form and its shape in literature. To him realism in art was ADARSHONMOKHI YATHARTHVAD meaning Idealistic Realism that had an important realistic function-to assist to the transformating society by creating awareness about the existing…

(appositive). In both novels, the idea of caste systems and different classes among the people are enforced. Yet, both stories have differing views with how to control the population. In Brave New World, the use of drugs and conditioning are enforced to prevent uprising, while in The Hunger Games the use of fear is applied in the districts to try and keep the people at ease. Overall, both novels share many similar stances on social stances…

Many people would not think that a racial caste system exists in United States, especially after Barack Obama was elected as a president. However, mass incarceration in the United States caused by the war on drugs functions as a system of racialized social control that is similar to Jim Crow. The current criminal justice system in the United States permanently keeps a huge percentage of the African American community out of the mainstream society and economy. The author retraces why the racial…

the quality of their lives due to relations between freedom and stability, power and caste, and truth and happiness. The relations between freedom and stability are most often criticized by John and Bernard.…

illiterates, low castes, and women are worthy of being beaten’ (Manusmriti, a book of Hindu religious scripture). No other religion in the world had explicitly divided people on the basis of caste, creed, sex, origin or purity and pollution in the world except Hinduism which is controlled and manipulated by the caste Hindus. In Hinduism, as it is mentioned in Rig Veda, the people are divided into four varnas which was later used by the caste Hindus to divide people into different castes to…