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	Caste (social) - MSN Encarta
		Caste (social), rigid social system in which a social hierarchy is maintained generation after generation and allows little mobility out of the position to which a person is born.
		The stringency of the caste system of the Hindus was broken down greatly during the period of British rule in India.
		In addition, the caste system was from time to time burst from within by ecclesiastical schisms, most notably the rise of Buddhism, itself a reaction from, and protest against, the intolerable bondage of the caste system.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565041/Caste_(social).html (623 words)

	Caste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Intermarriage between castes and sub-castes is limited, occupations may be assigned to particular sub-castes, and different castes may live separately in a village or a settlement.
		Caste systems have existed throughout history and throughout the world, but the most well-known caste system today is the Indian Varna system.
		The origin of the caste system is unknown (it exists in Indian populations as jatis) but it affected the many societies that occupy the Indian sub-continent, and later it was transmitted to Nepal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caste (1859 words)

	India - Caste and Class
		Each caste is part of a locally based system of interde-pendence with other groups, involving occupational specialization, and is linked in complex ways with networks that stretch across regions and throughout the nation.
		An example of such behavior is that of some Leatherworker castes adopting a policy of not eating beef, in the hope that abstaining from the defiling practice of consuming the flesh of sacred bovines would enhance their castes' status.
		Caste associations have expanded their areas of concern beyond traditional elite emulation and local politics into the wider political arenas of state and national politics.
	countrystudies.us /india/89.htm (5053 words)

	Hindu History - The Emergence of the Caste System (The Jati-Varna Matrix)
		It was these doctrines that gave the feature of heredity to the caste system which was further cemented by ideas of birth one' s in a caste depending on one's deeds in a past life and re-birth in a higher caste if one strictly adhered to caste rules in one's present life.
		In India, the system was held together with the caste system and the belief of birth and re-birth.
		Thus membership of a caste, which was an accident of birth was made a life-long accompaniment by the morality of the caste system.
	www.hindubooks.org /sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/castejati-varna.html (2623 words)

	Sri Lankan Caste System
		Castes with members who accumulated wealth and power have tended to rise gradually in their relative positions, and it is not uncommon for members of rising caste groups to adopt vegetarianism or patronize religious institutions in an attempt to raise their public ritual status.
		The dominant caste among the Sinhalese population is the Goyigama.
		Caste among the Sri Lankan Tamils derives from the Brahman-dominated system of southern India.
	asiarecipe.com /sricaste.html (2306 words)

	Indian Caste System
		The caste system in the religious form is basically a simple division of society in which there are four castes arranged in a hierarchy and below them the outcast.
		According to this theory, the caste system began with the arrival of the Aryans in India.
		And even after the caste system was organized in a strict manner there were many communities who did not always follow their status occupations.
	www.hotathrandom.com /IndianCaste.htm (5922 words)

	British Empire: Articles: Britain and the Indian Caste System
		Caste was seen as the essence of Indian society, the system through which it was possible to classify all of the various groups of indigenous people according to their ability, as reflected by caste, to be of service to the British.
		To fully appreciate the caste system one must step away from the definitions imposed by Europeans and look at the system as a whole, including the religious beliefs that are an integral part of it.
		To the British, viewing the caste system from the outside and on a very superficial level, it appeared to be a static system of social ordering that allowed the ruling class or Brahmins, to maintain their power over the other classes.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /article/castesystem.htm (9238 words)

	Caste System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The caste system exists in every country around the world, maybe not like in Nepal but in one way or another.
		The caste system was not created by some person like a king, but rather it devoloped out of a practice of a society over several thousands of years.
		A closer look at the past reveals how the caste system came to be in Nepal.
	internet.cybermesa.com /~rotto/caste.html (112 words)

	The Caste System
		Caste is defined as a rigid social system in which a social hierarchy is maintained generation after generation and allows little mobility out of the position to which a person is born (Encarta Encyclopedia).
		The caste system was broken up greatly during the period of British rule in India.
		The first effect that the British had on the caste system was to strengthen it, for the British gave the Brahmans back special privileges the Muslim rulers had taken away.
	david.snu.edu /~dwilliam/s97/india/caste.htm (956 words)

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		In the beginning the caste system was not a veiny strict social system.
		And so sometimes in English the caste system is explained in a confusing way according to which, the caste system consists of four castes which are divided into many castes.
		Despite economic modernization and laws countering discrimination against the lower end of the class structure and outlawing “untouchability,”; the caste system remains an important source of social identification and a potent factor in the political life of the country.
	www.lycos.com /info/caste-system.html (606 words)

	Caste System in Hinduism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The status of an individual in the society is determined by the caste in which he is born.
		There is no Hindu without a caste and being bound by caste from birth to death, he becomes subject to social regulation and tradition of the caste over which he has no control.
		Caste originally was a colour-bar, and in India, as later in America, served at first to separate free men from slaves.
	salam.muslimsonline.com /babri/caste.htm (1330 words)

	Caste and Casteism amongst the Hindu, (Muslim, Christian, and Sikh) Communities in India
		In the Indian lexion we refer to caste by the words 'Varna' meaning colour and 'Jati' which is derived from the root syllable 'Ja' which means 'to be born'.
		All this along with the recurring caste carnages and the ongoing caste politics are a constant reminder to us Indians that caste and casteism which we have inherited from our history are still active and alive around us.
		Caste is a gift of centuries of history whose origin goes back to 3 or 4 millennia in.
	www.hindubooks.org /sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/castevedic.html (2788 words)

	Caste System
		The basis of the caste system, according to the Hindu view, is men’s self-evident inborn inequality; physical, intellectual, and spiritual.
		Cast off at a distance lust and wrath and covetousness and honour, and, always observing the dictates of righteousness, punish with your own hands the man, whoever he may be, that deviates from the path of duty.
		To say that we should abolish the four orders of human beings (the caste system) also amounts to saying that the authority of the scriptures is to be brushed aside and substituted by some modern day thinker who argues that "In this day and age" the eternal principles do not apply.
	www.hinduism.co.za /caste.htm (7237 words)

	SSC: Caste system in India
		Caste hindus are the Brahmins (priestly castes) Kshatriyas (warrior/fighting castes), Vaishyas (business/trading caste).
		Caste has been instrumental in ending and putting a stop to the Indus-Valley Civilization, and also to that ancient civilized culture, and the growth, evolution and further development of the technology and intellectualism of the Indus-valley Civilization, or the knowledge of those times.
		Infect, the Caste System even now is oppressively acting to keep the Indian Society backward, and lagging far behind the world in almost every sphere of original development, at a time when the whole world is eagerly looking forward and moving ahead to step into the next millennium.
	www.dalitindia.org /caste/caste.htm (3505 words)

	A Tribute to Hinduism - Caste_System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Caste system is not stagnant and is undergoing changes under the impact of modernization.
		And as the system of caste is purely a social adjustment, there is nothing that can stand in the way of its revision and readjustment except a sense of pride and obstinacy and a demand to preserve the status quo on the part of some of its members.
		The caste system, in turn, is painted in the ugliest colors: as a racist Apartheid system designed to oppress the native population.
	www.atributetohinduism.com /Caste_System.htm (10922 words)

	Restorative Justice and India's Caste System: New World Outlook, July - August 1999
		The highest caste, the Brahmins, were the thinkers, philosophers, and priests whose role was to provide both spiritual guidance and intellectual sustenance to the society.
		This social system of gradation was given religious sanction by a verse in the ancient sacred writings of Hinduism and the earliest document of Indian history called the Rig Veda.
		Even revolts against the high castes by religious leaders such as Mahavira (540-468 B.C.), the founder of Jainism, and Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 B.C.), the founder of Buddhism, failed to reduce the rigidity of the caste system because caste distinctions persisted in both religious sects.
	gbgm-umc.org /nwo/99ja/india.html (2730 words)

	3g. The Caste System [Beyond Books - Culture and Geography]
		In fact, under the caste system, parents knew the jobs their kids would hold even before the kids were born.
		The caste system is structured so that people marry within their own caste, but it isn't unheard of to marry outside of it.
		The caste system is not described in the Hindu scripture.
	www.beyondbooks.com /wcu91/3g.asp (974 words)

	Caste System
		Caste systems in India evolved, just as they have done in the US, as a labor group by the kind of work.
		A key difference is that in India, caste became explicitly codified, whereas in America social structure by ethnicity or family lineage remains uncodified and subliminal.
		The advantage of the uncodified, invisible and often denied phenomenon of the American caste system is that it does not become cast (excuse the pun) in concrete.
	www.caribvoice.org /Opinions/castesystem.html (1653 words)

	Hinduism - Social Organization
		The caste system initially served to maintain rigid social boundaries between the invaders and the previous inhabitants.
		Second, the system separates the members of the different the varnas and jatis by a complex system of purity and impurity.
		The caste system has been remarkably stable in India for over two millennia; it is only since the modern, independent state of India was formed that the system has come under any scrutiny at all.
	uwacadweb.uwyo.edu /religionet/er/hinduism/HORGS.HTM (636 words)

	The Caste System
		Caste is defined as a rigid social system in which a social hierarchy is maintained generation after generation and allows little mobility out of the position to which a person is born (Encarta Encyclopedia).
		The caste system was broken up greatly during the period of British rule in India.
		The first effect that the British had on the caste system was to strengthen it, for the British gave the Brahmans back special privileges the Muslim rulers had taken away.
	home.snu.edu /~dwilliam/s97/india/caste.htm (956 words)

	Caste System - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.
		Caste, lexically defined as “a hereditary social group comprising persons of the same ethnic stock, social rank, occupation and more or less distinctive mores” is a characteristic common to all societies the world over, and hardly shows anything more than social differentiations that have developed in varying degrees of discrimination or exclusiveness.
		Above all, a system presumes a direction, a plan, a purpose, an objective towards the fulfilment of which the functioning of the different parts of the system is oriented, coordinated and harmonized.
		It must be borne in mind that there is vital distinction between caste and caste system—caste in the ordinary lexical sense and the term caste in the Brahmanical sense.
	www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Caste_System (2425 words)

	Caste System in India
		The infamous "caste system" is the result of the reincarnation and karma doctrines.
		Buddha and the founder of Jainism condemned the caste system; Gandhi in 1949 persuaded the Indian Parliament to outlaw Untouchability in the Constitution...
		The Caste System was born and maintained by the Brahmins, the priestly class...
	www.religion-cults.com /Eastern/Hinduism/hindu7.htm (474 words)

	colaco.net/ The Caste System of India
		The caste system of India is probably one of the most ill-understood entities known.
		In order to have a better picture of the 'casta' or the caste system of India, it is important to review the events occurring in the northwest corner of the Indian subcontinent about 3000 years prior to the arrival in India of the Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama.
		A curious oxymoron is the presence and practice of the caste system among the Roman Catholics of Goa and Mangalore.
	www.colaco.net /1/caste.htm (1850 words)

	Caste System in India
		The caste system, of course, does but the concept has been grossly degraded by 19th century colonialist historians who saw only its surface rigidities and made sweeping generalizations, (condemnatory for the most part), based on too little knowledge and even less experience.
		It is however ironic, that they never saw the parallels with the European system of guilds that divided artisans into separate social and economic entities on the basis of their specialization and sub-specializations.
		The four castes developed out of necessity, for with the evolution of society it was no longer possible for the tiller of the soil to assume the functions of priest, warrior, merchant, and artisan all rolled in one.
	www.anand.to /india/caste.html (515 words)

	The ‘Caste System’ in Nigeria, Democratization and Culture
		This essay examines the ‘Caste System’ in Nigeria, and the influence of culture on its practice in the society.
		Some other minor lower caste groups found in many kindred are given the pejorative Ibo expression of ‘ndi ejiri goro ihe.’ This may be translated in English as "those who are sacrificial lamb to the gods." Marriage and relationships of love with the rest of the community is abhorred.
		The caste system is an inhuman treatment that appeals only to the base and primitive mind - those who are not actively in touch with events in the modern political world.
	www.afbis.com /analysis/caste.htm (4415 words)

	Caste System in india, Indian Caste System, Caste in India
		The pattern of social classes in Hinduism is called the "caste system." The chart shows the major divisions and contents of the system.
		Basic caste is called varn.a, or "color." Subcaste, or jâti, "birth, life, rank," is a traditional subdivision of varn.a.
		Today the status of the Shudras, Untouchables, and other "scheduled castes," and the preferential policies that the Indian government has designed for their advancement ever since Independence, are sources of serious conflict, including murders and riots, in Indian society.
	www.indhistory.com /india-caste-system.html (1737 words)

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