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	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)

	Indian caste system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Indian caste system is highly complex and assumedly traditional hereditary system of social stratification of India, in which social classes are defined by a number of hierarchical endogamous groups often termed as Jati.
		The caste system was first exposed to the modern Western world during the Portuguese occupation and rule of sections of India.
		Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_caste_system (3693 words)

	Caste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Caste systems are traditional, hereditary systems of social stratification, such as clans, gentes, or the Indian caste system.
		Nepalese caste system resembles that of the Indian Jati system with numerous Jati divisions with a Varna system superimposed.
		Balinese caste system resembles in the Indian system with a four fold division of society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caste_system (1289 words)

	Caste - Wikipedia Light!
		The major Sinhalese castes (Jathi) are: Govigama or Goyi ('farmers'), Navandhaenna or Ridhi (silversmiths), Karava (fishermen), Dhurave (toddy tappers), Salagama or Haali (cinnamon peelers), Wahumpura or Hakuru (Jaggery-makers), Bathgama or Padhu (bearers), Berava (Tom-tom beaters), Panna (grass-cutters), Kumbal (potters), Radha (Washers or Dhobies), Demelagaththaro (Tamil tribes) and Hinna (washers to the Salagamas).
		The aboriginal Veddas were considered to be outside the caste system: many aristocratic families claim descent from these tribes; however, the 'Gypsy' castes may be offshoots of aboriginal hunters employed by the ancient kings.
		This "caste system" had mostly ritualistic ramifications, and the social side-effects were very limited and far lesser than those found in the Hindu caste system, which entailed almost complete social separation and a clear social hierarchy.
	godseye.com /wiki/index.php?title=Caste_system (2295 words)

	The Caste System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The caste system ensures that between 250 and 300 million people worldwide continue to suffer from segregation, exclusion, modern day slavery and other extreme forms of discrimination, exploitation and violence.
		A person remains in the same caste from birth to death and caste is handed down from generation to generation, Such divisions are justified by making use of the religious doctrine of karma, a belief that status in life is determined by one's deeds in previous lifetimes.
		Caste systems in other parts of the world also have a rigid social structure and consist of a group of people who are considered 'tower' than others because by birth they traditionally perform tasks that are considered dirty, demeaning or polluting.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Global_Secrets_Lies/Caste_System.html (267 words)

	The difference between the ancient india caste system and medieval social classes
		The hindus caste system has on behalf of the social solidarity of the sub-caste a far superior dimension which bring a lot of benefits to the population.
		The arguments in favor of such a system are based on the prevention of the over-taxation which is a consequences of the decadence of welfare system.
		This new system based on the coexistence between communities and as it is the most logical way to manage to create an efficient, well manage and modular social system, it is one the most promising political theory of the future.
	lautbry.tripod.com /cpce/caste-system/index.htm (1071 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 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.
		It should also be borne in mind that an entire caste could rise through the use of conquest or through service to rulers.Thus, it may be seen that within traditional Indian society the caste system was not static either within the material or metaphysical plane of existence.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /article/castesystem.htm (9238 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)

	Caste in Indian Society
		Caste in India has been a dynamic phenomenon and Manu's four classes with Brahmins at the top of the heap was more wishful thinking than an accurate depiction of the society he lived in.
		Priestly castes derived their power from the king alone and families loyal to the kings often banded together forming a jati that was subsequently recognized as Kshatriya.
		The point is that the caste system provided social mobility -- except that mobility was restricted to the mobility of a relatively small endogamous group.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Bridge/1771/Desh/cst.html (1192 words)

	The Caste System
		Caste is defined as a rigid social system in which a social hierarchy is maintained for generations and allows little mobility out of the position to which a person is born (Encarta Encyclopedia).
		The Indian caste was hereditary and marriage was only permitted within the same caste.
		Interestingly, the first effect that the British had on the caste system was to strengthen rather than undermine it, for the British gave the Brahmans back certain special privileges which under Muslim had been withdrawn from them.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/history/empire/caste.html (525 words)

	Caste at AllExperts
		Caste systems are traditional, hereditary systems of social stratification, such as clans, gentes, or the Indian caste system.
		The caste system and its attendant practises have been outlawed and declared punishable offences, but these laws are difficult to implement.
		Nepalese caste system resembles that of the Indian Jati system with numerous Jati divisions with a Varna system superimposed.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/ca/caste.htm (1292 words)

	India Caste system
		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.
		Many castes are traditionally associated with an occupation, such as high-ranking Brahmans; middle-ranking farmer and artisan groups, such as potters, barbers, and carpenters; and very low-ranking "Untouchable" leatherworkers, butchers, launderers, and latrine cleaners.
		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.
	www.indianchild.com /caste_system_india.htm (2215 words)

	trinicenter.com - History of Ancient Indian Conquest
		A person is considered a member of the caste into which he or she is born and remains within that caste until death, although the particular ranking of that caste may vary among regions and over time.
		Although “untouchability” was abolished under Article 17 of the Indian constitution, the practice continues to determine the socio-economic and religious standing of those at the bottom of the caste hierarchy.
		One of the cruellest and longest-lasting systems of humiliation was the inhuman bhitrini system which institutionalised the mass rape of Nepali women on a grand scale.
	www.trinicenter.com /WorldNews/castesystem.htm (1575 words)

	Indian mathematics
		We shall examine the contributions of Indian mathematics in this article, but before looking at this contribution in more detail we should say clearly that the "huge debt" is the beautiful number system invented by the Indians on which much of mathematical development has rested.
		Histories of Indian mathematics used to begin by describing the geometry contained in the Sulbasutras but research into the history of Indian mathematics has shown that the essentials of this geometry were older being contained in the altar constructions described in the Vedic mythology text the Shatapatha Brahmana and the Taittiriya Samhita.
		The earliest known urban Indian culture was first identified in 1921 at Harappa in the Punjab and then, one year later, at Mohenjo-daro, near the Indus River in the Sindh.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/HistTopics/Indian_mathematics.html (3631 words)

	The Caste System
		Caste is defined as a rigid social system in which a social hierarchy is maintained for generations and allows little mobility out of the position to which a person is born (Encarta Encyclopedia).
		Interestingly, the first effect that the British had on the caste system was to strengthen rather than undermine it, for the British gave the Brahmans back certain special privileges which under Muslim had been withdrawn from them.
		A rising strong middle class with a heightened sense of Indian nationalism evolved out of the caste system allowing men of low castes to rise to high ranks and positions of power, previously closed to them.
	www.thecore.nus.edu.sg /landow/victorian/history/empire/caste.html (525 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.
		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.
		Indians have traditionally been too introverted and due to that, have not studied the rest of the world.
	www.caribvoice.org /Opinions/castesystem.html (1653 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, Caste System, Caste In India, Indian Caste System
		The caste is a closed group whose members are severely restricted in their choice of occupation and degree of social participation.
		Indian castes are rigidly differentiated by rituals and beliefs that pervade all thought and conduct.
		The explanation that Indian castes were originally based on color lines to preserve the racial and cultural purity of conquering groups is inadequate historically to account for the physical and cultural variety of such groups.
	www.lotussculpture.com /bronze_sculpture_caste.htm (591 words)

	The Indian CaSte System ---- Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Merits of the Caste System -------------------------- The caste system is often portrayed as the ultimate horror.
		Caste is perceived as an "exclusion-from," but first of all it is a form of "belonging-to," a natural structure of solidarity.
		Sometimes castes were collectively converted to Islam, and Pope Gregory XV (1621-23) decreed that the missionaries could tolerate caste distinction among Christian converts; but by and large, caste remained an effective hurdle to the destruction of Hinduism through conversion.
	www.hindunet.org /alt_hindu/1994/msg00572.html (383 words)

	Varna - The Caste System - Indian Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Generally, it is permitted that a higher caste man marry a lower caste woman, with the children of that marriage attaining the caste of the father.
		The marriage of a higher caste man with a lower caste woman was deprecated, with the children of that marriage being outside the proper caste system, and having a lower status in society.
		In addition to the four castes and the mixture of these castes, in latter days, people engaged in certain debased callings (such as those who tan animal hides), were considered totally out of the caste system, and even regarded as untouchable.
	members.cox.net /apamnapat/entities/Varna.html (237 words)

	LAWSO 160 Keywords: Caste System (19)
		In general, a caste is an endogamous hereditary group of families, bearing common name; often claiming a common descent; as a rule professing to follow the same hereditary calling; clinging to the same customs, especially regarding marriages; and often further divided into smaller endogamous circles (Britannica, online).
		Each caste can maintain its status by regulating its contact with lower caste groups, by avoiding their polluting effects and by regulating its contact with objects thought to be inherently impure.
		Their are some that claim that a caste system should be regarded as the great safeguard of social tranquillity, therefore as the indispensable condition of the progress in certain arts and industries.
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	The Indian Caste System
		Although many Hindus subscribe to the belief that one is born into a certain caste this belief is not supported by their scriptures.
		The caste system in India has degenerated into a system falsely recognizing men born in Brahmin families as Brahmins, even though they don't exhibit the qualities of Brahmins.
		The current Indian system is something like accepting the sons of supreme court judges as supreme court judges...
	www.krishna.org /Articles/2000/07/00057.html (1706 words)

	Indian Caste System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In fact, the popular idea of simply four major castes plus the so-called untouchables is more fiction than fact; especially since the latter ones (15% of society), together with India's non-Hindu tribal population (7%), are actually outside the caste system; casteless and therefore cast out.
		Although caste segregation is officially illegal, it is very much alive in Indian society even at the close of the 20th century.
		In the past, some religious movements such as Shakta and Tantra were the first to discard the Vedic/Brahmanic laws concerning caste membership; and in their rituals all castes mix freely.
	www.yoniversum.nl /dakini/castes.html (270 words)

	Indian Caste System--Varnasrama System
		This system is described in the timeless Vedic literature of India and it is called Varnasrama dharma.
		The purpose of the Varnasrama social system is to provide a structure which allows people to work according to their natural tendencies and to organize society so that everyone, regardless of their position, makes spiritual advancement.
		The result of the corruption of the original system has been the destruction of the entire social structure in India and the "caste" system is now being used by the rich to exploit and oppress the poor.
	krishna.org /ctfote/varnash.html (2132 words)

	IMC India - The Indian Caste System and ::: The British (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Indian Caste System and The British - Ethnographic Mapping and the Construction of the British Census in India By Kevin Hobson
		This raised howls of protest from representatives of the group as late as 1895 since it was felt that this was a slander and a lie.H. Risely, Commissioner of the 1901 census, also showed British beliefs in an 1886 publication which stated that race sentiment, far from being:
		Therefore, there is an intimate connection between caste and race based on which castes intermarried and which did not.
	india.indymedia.org /en/2003/02/3317.shtml (9640 words)

	Lesson Three (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Students will be able to identify at least three basic elements of the caste system in Early India.
		Students will be able to connect the construction of the caste system to Hindu beliefs.
		Given elements of the caste system, students will be able to connect these principles to the roles and responsibilities of individuals in the Indian family.
	www.tcnj.edu /~ostrum2/lesson3.htm (782 words)

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