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The Indian Caste Culture

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The Indian Caste Culture

The Indian Caste culture revolves around the idea of separating classes according to preferences drawn from both financial and cultural backgrounds (Pathania & Tierney, 2018). Throughout history, India has had a two-concept system commonly referred to as jati and varna that has continuously classified people into four social classes namely Kshatriyas, Brahmins, Vaishyas, and Shudras. The basis for the classification has been to continuous states defined along hereditary and endogamous lines whose shifts that have defined the Indian cultural system, the 2,200 BCE and 100 CE era saw the growth of strong state ideologies that shaped the Indian political status (Pathania & Tierney, 2018). The caste system is prominent today with present-day Indian Buddhism representing one of the oldest social statuses in India.

The Indian caste system flourishes under the ideas of discrimination and separation of classes where people from the lower classes are considered ineligible and thus undeserving of the socioeconomic statuses enjoyed by upper classes which have created major rifts in the Indian population. At the same time, the caste system ignores the introduction of a fair system where constitutional articles such as Article 15 of the Indian Constitutions are largely opposed by higher classes as they fight against discrimination which is mostly seen in the educational system where job allocations and school admissions serve as incentives for those who are considered deserving (Pathania & Tierney, 2018; history assignment help). However, the caste system has helped to show the ills in how most of the Indian institutions are run. For instance, the caste system has exposed the economic inequality in India with past studies showing that 36.3% of the Indian people owned no land as of 2001(Pathania & Tierney, 2018). As such, leadership has been forced to start listening to the grievances of the poor in a country whose population stretches its available resources to the limit. As such, the effects of the Indian caste system both   hurts and shapes the country in a way that the development of the themes behind the system and its existence today need to be analyzed from both negative and positive perspectives.

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Pathania, G. J., & Tierney, W. G. (2018). An ethnography of caste and class at an Indian 

university: creating capital. Tertiary Education and Management, 24(3), 221-231.