Caste

remaining quarter. This unequal distribution of wealth is caused by the failure of India’s Modi government – a government system created by Narendra Modi– which is the direct link to India’s poverty. Nevertheless, the caste system is also a major cause of the dilemma. The caste system is a system of social stratification used in India. It is a class structure determined by birth and plays an important role when…

segregate facilities. The first case relating to the problem of identification of backwardness was Balaji case in which the count recognized caste as a relevant factor in determining the social…

removals including eugenics, paternalism, and Christianizing mission. Half-caste children like Molly, Gracie, and Daisy were relocated to the Moore River Settlement School which trained girls to be domestic workers or farm laborers and eventually these half-caste children were able to be assimilated into the white society. While the chief protector of Aboriginal Australians A.O. Neville believed that he was helping half-caste children by taking them out of their communities and placing them in…

religion as a whole, specifically the caste system, the change from Vedic traditions and rituals to the Post-Axial focus on gaining spiritual knowledge and the traditions in which they are sought.…

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…

dominant features of the Indian society and there are certain characteristics by which it is determined. Aspects like caste, material possessions, status, power etc. are the key determinants in defining the collective framework of the Indian society. Social stratification is an issue that has been widely dealt with and a lot of literature upon this topic exists, Andre Beteille’s book, ‘Caste, Class and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village’ is one such book that has…

reunified China. Likewise, the caste system separated groups of people into socioeconomic categories. The upper class did not have to perform unclean tasks. The Sudras, the lowest class, did. In addition, lower classes received no rights in society. This relates directly to the feudalist society that China embraced. A Chinese emperor owns the land, and distributes land for a trade from the lords and lower classes. In both cases, lower classes have less rights. Although the caste system does not…

drugged and raped by a group of upper caste Jat boys. It had all started off with a land dispute between the Dalits and the Jats, where the latter built a brick wall around the disputed land, thereby blocking the Dalits' access to water, grazing land and other means of livelihood. The Dalits decided to retaliate by staging protests in front of the Hisar mini-secretariat and going on an indefinite dharna. The Jat community, alarmed by the fact that Dalits, a lower caste, were raising their…

School of Economics. He was India’s most radical thinker and an eminent writer who overlook the drafting of the Indian Constitution and served as India’s first law Minister. Dr BR Ambedkar is worshiped by millions of low caste followers in India. He wanted to eradicate the caste hierarchy from amongst the Hindus. The fact that…

India India is divided into many parts on the basis of caste, class, religion etc. One of the section which was depressed, crushed by so called upper class is lower class people also known as Dalit. These people also known by different names like untouchables, harijan and Scheduled castes (SC). ‘Dalit’ means ‘crushed’, this term was first used by Jyotirao Phule. These people also called as ‘Untouchables’ and officially called ‘Scheduled Castes (SC)’, which was coined in 1935. (prologue,book).…