The Importance Of The Caste System In India

India, the second most populous nations on Earth or 1.3 billion people, a large scale number causes a wide range of human right violation. India has been facing with the inequality of poverty for generations including human trafficking and discrimination. One of the main reason is the Caste system, the system of social stratification that happened long time ago since the beginning of the country. This system has created the bad viewing point on the other person that did not born in the same class, mean that people may not seen each other equally and might not treat them properly. In addition, another fact that should bring to consider is the gap between the rich and the poor, the rate is still high, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer.

Classing system create inequality and discrimination to the society. These believe still exist and be seen in the modern days. According to study of Washington university (2010), there are 180-220 million poor people were treated and seen as dalits. At least 40 million people has to be slave labors because of their ancestors debts. They cannot earn money as they could so they remain poor or even poorer. Dalits also have forced to the the menial jobs such as cleaning human waste from dry toilets (“Cleaning human waste”,

Chinese governments can eliminate 54% (~500 million people) of the nationwide poverty or from 64% in 1980 to 10% in 2005 while Indian governments only solved 20% of poverty (World Bank, 2015). Surprisingly, even they reduced one in five, the number of the people below poverty line in India is still the same, 381 million people in 1980 and 386 million people in 2005 (“Effects of poverty”,2015), because India did not have birth rate limited policy like in China. The population in India has increased constantly over the past 50 years, the average birth rate per one woman is 3.5 (World Bank,