Essay On Indian Caste System

The Caste System is commonly known to be a social structure within India’s population of over one-billion people. The word Caste is derived from the Portuguese word Castas meaning pure.

The choice of the word Castas, was perhaps used due to relevance of cleanliness and ritual purity, richly found within Indian society. The ideology pertaining to the caste system, is developed through the Veda’s, the veda’s are a group of four holy books, witch the hindu faith’s obtain a large portion of their doctrine through, although the sanskrit writing such as the Bhagavad Gita, does teach an ideology of which India’s caste system is structured on, there is controversy with wether the Caste system of today is a manipulated definition of the scriptures,

Before the Portuguese colonisation of India, it is believe that the Indian community was various fragmentations of different societies, that served as the foundation of social Identity, rather like tribal identity. The Portuguese offered the ideology of the caste system, to help in the categorisation of indian society, this ideology was then developed further by the British, in hope of containing order within the Indian community, leading the caste system to be moulded into the ideology of society, that it is today.

The objectors of the caste system, advocate for the replacement of the caste social system with the Varna social system. The Varna system is the orthodox social system of india, it’s nature is possibly best displayed within a verse of the Rig Veda, by the name “the Hymn of man”, in verse twelve we see that “his” body was separated into four different parts, these four part’s are the individual social sects, of which the paradigms of both the varna, and the caste system’s

The manu-smrti make many sentiments, that continue the lower worth of women in contrast of their male counterparts, chapter five, verse one-hundred-and-fifty one, indicate that at no point of life, should a women ever be able to assert her self independently from male influence, this is then backed up the scriptures, such as chapter two verse two-hundred-and-fourteen continued through the following verse, which indicate women to be natural seducer’s of men, and thus men should never be unguarded when in the company of females, for a women can lead astray, a wise man to make him a slave of desire and anger, and that this includes one mother or sisters or even daughter, for the senses are powerful and master even a learned man which is then developed further, by chapter nine verse fifteen, to describe that women even after marriage, are not loyal to their husband due to their passion for men, being immutable temper and naturally