
	Where results make sense

Topic: Indian caste sytem

Related Topics

Indian caste system

Kshatriya

Khatri

Nadar caste

Adi Dravida

Punjabi Khatri

List of ethnic slurs

Iyer

Brahmin

Yadav

Iyengar

Valmiki

Punjab

Indian film

Geography of Ecuador

In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	[No title]
		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 Brahmanas, to maintain their power over the other classes.
		In the meantime, the upper 'castes (the words upper and lower had no meaning then, it is we who 'refer to them as such italics are mine) came to the rescue of the lower castes in 'distress and the lower castes fought under the banner of the upper 'caste Kshatriyas in the defense of freedom.
		But caste had also been omitted in the wartime census of 1941 for reasons of economy, and because the British census commissioner was confronted with innumerable petitions requesting changes in caste name and rank.
	indicstudies.us /caste/index.htm (5900 words)

	Class Caste
		Caste itself devolved into a racial differentiation between the conquerors and the conquered, with color as the most visible distinction.
		The Hindus believe that the caste that one is born into is based on the karma and dharma of one's previous birth.
		Young men of this caste also studied with a guru (teacher) to learn the holy texts and become "twice born", but their training included the use of weapons.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /Schwww/sch618/India/Class_Caste.html (1529 words)

	Hindunet: The Hindu Universe: What do you think about the caste system?
		Caste is a portuguese word and sdoes not properley explain the concept of varna.
		Caste is very corrupt and while one may acknowledge the fact that every one is at different stages of their spiritual journey, that society stratifies, caste distinction should be done away with.
		I believe caste is a curruption of Krishna, and Buddha, etc, advocation of different paths in life - eventually somehow this has become people being born into paths, which is bullshit, I believe infact path is chosen, and scripture seems to support this.
	www.hindunet.org /forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=caste&Number=47948&Main=45359 (5811 words)

	[No title]
		Indian development during its classical era did not take on the structure of rising and falling dynasties, as in China.
		The Indian caste system, like the Egyptian division between noble and commoner and the Greco-Roman division between free and slave, rests on the assumption that humans are inherently unequal.
		Indian social structure was characterized by its rigidity and lack of interaction across several classes.
	osx.lps.org /manila/tbayne/India.doc (1248 words)

	01.13.98 - India's caste system gets fresh, Freudian analysis in new book by UC Berkeley folklorist Alan Dundes
		Castes are ranked on the basis of one's "pollution" -- work-related contact with life processes such as birth and death and life substances such as feces and blood.
		The top, "cleanest" caste -- the Brahmans -- supposedly were born from the head of the creator while the bottom, "dirtiest" caste -- the untouchables -- came from the feet or anus.
		Indian parents give their children a mixed message during their early years, he said, "that is closely related to the pollution complex."
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/98legacy/01_13_98b.html (853 words)

	History of the Caste System in India
		Caste is a term, which is used to specify a group of people having a specific social rank and dates back to 1200 BCE.
		The Indian term for caste is jati, and generally designates a group that can vary in size from a handful to many thousands.
		The earliest expressions of caste can be found in one of India’s vast bodies of religious scripture known as the Vedas, which are though to have been complied between 1500 and 1000 BCE, although the time of their composition is under debate.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~epandit/page2.html (785 words)

	Asia Finest Discussion Forum > Caste system
		I myself donot believe in castes, and it is really hard for me as my parents marriage was an inter-caste(although they both were kshatriya), inter-ligual language.
		Thus, to the extent that dharmashastras conflict with shruti and the Gita, the latter prevails.
		Huh there's no problem in caste system as long as the people can be rich even for their low caste status.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t23788.html (921 words)

	GautaM - INDIAN IMAGE IN SURINAM III
		Since the demographic birth rate among the Indians was increasing the fear of Indian domination lingered on in the minds of the Creole.
		Since they were in a situation where other Indians were also in the similar situation the koinezation gradually created a homogeneity in their group and the distance between the regions diminished.
		Since the Indian group was accepted by the Dutch masters and the plantation owners as a unique community, Indians were free to observe their socio-cultural and religious institutions.
	www.saxakali.com /indocarib/sojourner7c.htm (6858 words)

	More on Hinduism
		According to Hinduism and the heterodox Indian religions, existence is cyclic rather than (in the Judeao-Christian and secular West) linear.
		Reformers like Gautama Buddha, various Tantrics, and Mahatma Gandhi, have through the ages condemned the caste system, and nowadays things are slowly changing and the caste sytem is being reinterprted.
		I have also been told that one's caste is not something one is born into but corresponds to one's aptitudes and vocation in life, and that the fatalistic socially-entrenched application of the caste system is a distortion of the original truth.
	www.kheper.net /topics/religion/Hinduism-more.html (1043 words)

	Polite Indian
		One reason as I mentioned before is the case of fake caste certificates that the upper caste would identify themself not with their own caste but with a lower caste.
		The Caste system, when branded as an evil and spoken as not being a part of hinduismin in the same breath is likely to get denounced by the religious leaders as well.
		Since Indians are a minority race in USA, in the national marrow registry, there aren’t as many Indians registered and as a result, the possibility of a match is much less for patients of Indian origin.
	politeindian.wordpress.com (5896 words)

	2006 July « Polite Indian
		He believed that the hearts of the upper castes could be changed to treat the lower castes equally and his entire struggle was directed towards bringing that change of heart.
		Annihilation of Caste, he went too far in explaining the consequences which in my view was unnecessary and he extrapolated too much.
		Representation of the backward castes in these places will definitely provide them the power and the means to uplift the community to which they belong.
	politeindian.wordpress.com /2006/07 (2944 words)

	The Caste System in Hinduism
		Apart from skin color, Indians otherwise have "Caucasian" features -- narrow noses, thin lips, etc. -- and recent genetic mapping studies seem to show that Indians are more closely related to the people of the Middle East and Europe than to anyone else.
		Why there are so many Untouchables is unclear, although caste Hindus can be ejected from their jâtis and become outcastes and various tribal or formerly tribal people in India may never have been properly integrated into the social system.
		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 suicides, murders, and riots, in Indian society.
	www.friesian.com /caste.htm (1989 words)

	Caste « WordPress.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Caste Sytem - Can we really abolish it?
		Caste Sytem - Why is no one talking about abolishing it?
		Caste System - Ambedkar and Annihilation of Caste — 2 comments
	wordpress.com /tag/caste (316 words)

	Khaleej Times Online - India’s affirmative action plan shows up the caste divides
		Students from India’s upper caste see a further shrinking of their limited opportunities to gain admission in a handful of higher education institutions.
		The roots of the Hindu caste system can be traced back to more than 3,000 years, when people were segregated according to their historical occupation.
		The priestly Brahmin caste were at the top of the ladder and the Dalits at its lowest rung.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/June/subcontinent_June33.xml§ion=subcontinent (1047 words)

	Quota Reservations « Polite Indian
		We had agreed that if all sections of Indian society were to participate in and make use of the knowledge economy, we would need a radical paradigm shift in the way we thought of the production, dissemination and use of knowledge.
		For one thing, the historical claims of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and the nature of the deprivations they face are qualitatively of a different order than those faced by Other Backward Castes, at least in North India.
		The government’s announcement is deeply disappointing because it reinforces the cardinal weakness of the Indian system: all institutions have to be reduced to the same level.
	politeindian.wordpress.com /tag/quota-reservations (3144 words)

	The Examined Life » Blog Archive » Why Indians are socialist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		In the typical Indian society, it’s considered a fairly evil thing to be arrogant.
		There is nothing right/wrong with that per se, except for the fact that humility is a show of the fact that while one may have done quite a bit in one’s area of expertise to get where he/she is, perfection has never been a human trait.
		Partly cultural and historic reasons like the caste sytem, social system(protector-client system), repeated invasions from foreign hordes etc creating a defensive collectivisation for survival.
	www.ravikiran.com /2004/12/08/why-indians-are-socialist (1224 words)

	India's Untouchables - www.ezboard.com
		Indian constitution has made ammends and has given special previlages to the people who are of schedule tribes and schedule caste, even if they are financially well off.
		We Indians are very proud of the traditions we follow and of our culture.What great a culture is...we teach our children to pray to god (36 crores of them) to bribe the god for even get passed in the exams and all INDIANS are shouting to end the corruption.
		Caste system is destined to the dustbin of the history but one should not expect a dramatic reversal in a generation or two.
	pub18.ezboard.com /fbalkansfrm21.showPrevMessage?topicID=18.topic (10239 words)

	Caste system - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		The Caste Sytem is more of a social thing than a religious thing, as chronicled below by M. Nadkarni..........
		I wonder how Indian democracy works when a large portion of people know they are deliberately discriminated.
		Interesting how some yellow people here like to talk about caste system when they have their own racial hirarchy system in their own nations regarding skin colour, race obcession, xenophobia, prejudice, worhshipping white people and have disdain towards interacial marriages...
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?act=findpost&pid=1207328 (915 words)

	[No title]
		India's government thought that foreign trade resulted in the unfair exploitation and impoverishment of Indians by foreign countries, and sought to shut this down by closing down the relatively free trade (through tariffs, licensing requirements and other regulatory measures) that had been practised by India's former British rulers.
		Argentine and American investors were barred from holding due to matter of national security, and Indians were forbidden from even raising bonds in London or Hong Kong (for fear of them breaking through the social structure of the Brits).
		Secondly there is no official evidence to show that the average lot of Indians improved during the British rule: the Brits themselves did the job of burning ALL official records (the buggers must have learnt something from the Nuremberg trials by then).
	www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/72-12689.asp (892 words)

	InfoLanka Forum - Does singhalese ppl have caste system????
		Any way, Caste system is structure of social communities, For example, Indian Subcontient never had slavery due to that they had already caste system for communities except that If king capatured other country enemies(Including other country(region) king), and he used as slaves.
		Any way, English Class system is similar to caste system, If born in a class system, his generation is always that class system even they had wealth or not because they carried their class system surname.
		Occupied by the Portuguese in the 16th century and by the Dutch in the 17th century, the island was ceded to the British in 1796, became a crown colony in 1802, and was united under British rule by 1815.
	www.infolanka.com /cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.cgi?num=1147310211 (1895 words)

	Embassy of India, Berlin
		The South Indians in the audience were proud of their politicians (though this was perhaps, less true of the Tamilians) and kept contrasting Chandrababu and Krishna with Laloo Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav.
		Few Indians can forget Chinese ultimatums to India in the 1965 and 1971 wars with Pakistan, and the 1999 Chinese military forays across the Line of Control in Ladakh, Kashmir, while the Kargil conflict was raging between the Indian military and Pakistani invaders on Buddhist Ladakh's opposite flank.
		Indian woman says no to dowry demands and wins a nation's attention NOIDA, India (AP) -- Music played, drinks were served and the priest got ready as 2,000 wedding guests waited on the sprawling lawn for the beautiful young bride to walk in for the ceremony.
	www.indianembassy.de /guestbook1b.html (13592 words)

	The Flip Side Of Creamy Layer « Polite Indian
		There might be very valid reasons for that, but I don’t think this kind of hatred is going to take us towards any kind of solution.
		We definitely need a revolution but that is against the caste system and not against any particular caste.
		This caste based name calling and hatred needs to end if we have to move towards any kind of social justice.
	politeindian.wordpress.com /2006/08/09/the-flip-side-of-creamy-layer-2 (1197 words)

	Comments on Nandakumar Chandran, comments on Hinduism and Buddhism - different religions?, comments on Nandakumar ...
		The caste system: it is generally held that the Buddha rejected the caste system in contrast to the other schools, which accepted the varna system.
		Buddha said," There is an unborn, an unoriginated, an unmade, an uncompounded; were there not, O mendicants, there would be no escape from the world of the born, the unoriginated, the made and the compounded" (Udana 8.3).
		Buddha's ideas about the caste sytem are identical to that discussed in Mahabharata/Gita.
	www.sulekha.com /blogs/commentdisplay.aspx?cid=38748&pageno=2 (2368 words)

	13(3) Letter from Editor-in-Chief, TIS
		The Indian government has selected Bangalore -- a rapidly growing city with a population approaching four million -- for special treatment as a hi-tech center.
		It is also useful to read it along with the two articles about information technology and social policy in India that precede it in this issue, since they add a vivid appreciation of the social dynamics of Asian development.
		But the coupling of social equity and prosperity with new technological developments is an elusive goal whose complexities we can learn from various experiments worldwide.
	www.indiana.edu /~tisj/readers/full-text/13-3.html (910 words)

	What Can We Learn from Hinduism : Recovering the Mystical
		The caste system is very complex and is by no means the only cause of widespread poverty which some Indians would see primarily as a legacy of imperialism.
		The priests, because of their role, were careful to avoid pollution, but by so doing cut themselves off from other castes and would not eat with or marry someone of a lower caste.
		Gandhi, who defended the theory of caste, said, ‘I consider untouchability to be a heinous crime against humanity.
	www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=3268&C=2692 (2566 words)

	[No title]
		Caste, or Caste Sytem Varnas Brahmins (priests and teachers),Ksatriyas (warriors),Vaisyas (farmers, merchants, artisans) Sudras (laborers).
		Like the goals of life, these can be divided into three plus one.
		suttee: former Indian funeral practice in which the widow immolated herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
	www.csupomona.edu /~plin/ews431/hindu_terms.htm (703 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)