Caste system in india

caste system in India

Caste system in India has its origin long back from the period of Vedas to present day modern 21st century. caste system is a rigid culture that is followed in all most in the minds of every Indian with consciously or unconsciously .people feel that its a kind of bond which keeps them together. caste system basically originated from the fellow tribes which migrated from different parts of the world to India.caste is also called as Jati in Indian vernacular languages. the varnas and jatis have pre modern origin, which date to as long as 2000 bc. caste system is highly rigid in terms of marriage agreement, people are supposed to marry inside or within their own caste, the rules which are made by caste practices are supposed to be accepted and fallowed, in case if an individual violates a rule which is made by the caste practices they will be prohibited to participate in any programmes or rituals carried by the community people.

There was a complete stratification of castes depending upon their work which they carried out namely BRAMINS,VAISHYAS,KSHATRIYAS,and the lowest of all  was SHUDRA. bramins involved in ritual practices vaishyas in trade kshatriya waged war and the left out work was to clean up the mess present in the society, so it was left to shudras ,shdras were forced to clean the strets carry dead animals and do all kind of lower jobs .the problem was not that much with the profession but it was all to do with the treatment of higher caste people towards the shudras, shudras were treated as animals they did not have any social status in the society. there were even worst cases where shudras were not suppose to visit the places of upper caste people where they use to gather and the very touch of shudras would have made the upper caste folks impure and have blame on their chastity and purity. there was a reference where a person belonging to shudra drank water from well the upper caste brahmins thought that its an dishonour to our community and they cut the tongue of that person and they used cow dung to purify water