Thread: Caste system in Indian Society

The caste system is one that is composed of small and ranked groups of persons, each of which is a hereditary endogamous group having a traditional association with an occupation and each is usually associated with more or less distinct ritual status in a hierarchical system based on the concepts of purity and pollution. Caste system in India has a history going back to the Vedic times {1500-800BC}.

The society was divided into four groups, brahmans, kshatriyas, vaishyas and shudras. Among systems of stratification the Indian caste system is unique. It is uniquely Indian. Not in its rigidity as an institution, but its persistence, adaptability, proliferation, internal schisms, competitions, collusions, combinations and recombination has characterized the caste system as an institution from the Vedic times. The Indian caste system has many flaws.

It never let those at the bottom of the hierarchy to climb up the ladder and live a better life. The caste system also created religious differences among the people of the society. The caste system did not allow the shudras to enter the temples nor were they allowed to use public lakes and wells. They were completely deprived of any good thing.

The caste system is prevailing in India even today. Due to the desperate measures taken by the Indian government the effect of the caste system has been gradually reduced post independence. Now the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes are given special preferences at every sector. They are given more opportunities now in order to come forward and match the pace of the present world. They are provided with more chances to reduce the gap between the top and the bottom. The caste system in India is a major hindrance towards the progress and development of the country.

Reservation system of India is having a lot of pitfalls. It has to be modified according to the poverty line. Creamy layer for OBC is a good example but implementation is really bad.

Caste system in the contemporary nation ha divided India in to various communities with differ perceptions as well as the most troublesome factors. When the mass adheres to Muslim or Hinduism as their respective faith, frequently it happens that caste system divides them for several wrong reasons. People have to re-look at the spoilt social engineering experiments of reservation since after fifty years the num of individuals under disadvantaged and privileged keeps enhancing due to number of faulty delivery mechanism only.

Caste system provokes and paves way to the inequality and divide and rule policy. Not only after the britishers still the nation is fighting with the evil of caste system. reservation system is creating all mess in the nation.

Caste system is prevalent in indian society since ages. This has now become a tradition in india that people are discriminated on the basis of caste and culture. The caste system is a curse on indian society and people should take out rallies against the caste system as this is very much growing issue in the rural areas of Rajasthan and other nearby places of rural areas of Gujarat and Rajasthan.

Caste system still prevails in India and it would until we continue to look at people with differences. People are divided basing on castes in backward class, schedule class and schedule tribes. When this system continues to exist, we cannot ask for a caste system free society.

I think the only way to get past the caste system is to treat people as equals. We need to look at all our country men as human beings first to make any changes. Fortunately these changes are happening with the younger generation of Indians.

India is developing & I am happy to see so many literate, aware, optimistic people everywhere I go. But still, when it comes to marriage, unfortunately, this is like first issue in many families.