INDIA'S CASTE SYSTEM

                                                    INDIA'S CASTE SYSTEM

The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati.                                 

DEFINED:-

The word caste is derived from the Portuguese caste meaning lineage,breed,or race.                                           

DEFINITION:-                                                                                                                                           A type of social organization/hirearchy in which a person's occupation and position in lifelife is determined by  the circumstances by his birth.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    WHAT IS THE CASTE SYSTEM? 

• indian society developed into a complex system based on class and caste.                                     •Caste is based on the idea that there are separate kinds of humans. 

•Higher-caste people consider themselves purer (closer to moksha) than lower-caste people.

•There are four different levels in the indian caste system.

•Brahman, kshatriya, vaishya, shudra. 

WHAT IS A CASTE? 

• "Caste" Is the term used to describe the complex system of social divisions that pervades  in India.

• Caste is an ancient hereditary system that developed alongside and became intertwined with Hinduism.

• Caste determines whom a person can marry, specifies what kind of work he can do, and even controls what he can eat or touch.

• Since the great majority of indians are hindu, the caste system has played an enormous role in the history of india, and it continues to exert tremendous influence on modern indian culture and politics.            

INDIAN CASTE SYSTEM

• Indian caste system is routed in Hinduism and it's order of four castes and four stages in life.

• Originates from the aryan invaders four to five thousand years ago.                                                                       

THE CASTE SYSTEM

• The caste system began in India after the aryans invaded and established their own rules for governing the society.

• The aryans did not permit marriages between their own people and people of the cultures they conquered.

• This was very different from the Romans, who encouraged the people they conquered and the soldiers to marry.

• The caste system, then, was based upon idea that people are different, so they should have different roles.

• Really there are 4 groups, however the untouchables are considered so low that they aren't even counted.                                                                                                                                                                 

HOW IT DEVELOPED

• Influenced by economic and social factors, the caste system became a traditional, hereditary system of social stratification.

• The varnas (or castes which define the groups social standing in marital and occupational matters) are Brahmans (scholar caste), kshariya (warrior caste), vaisya (trader and agriculturist caste), and shudra (worker and cultivator caste).                                                                                                                                  

RELIGIOUS ORIGIN OF CASTE HIERARCHY

• Dismemberment of purusha

• Head (mouth) : Brahmin (priest, teacher) (white⚪)

• Arms : Kshatriya (rulers, warriors) (red🔴)

• Legs : vaishya (landlords, Businessmen) (brown🟤)

• Feet : shudra (peasants) (black⚫)