We've done away with the caste system.

The caste system and labor laws prevent an efficient labor market.

We've done away with the caste system, we are now in a system where anyone can rise to any position they please.

India s New Caste Politics

India s New Ruling Caste

The Brahman priests stood at the pinnacle of a rigid social hierarchy a sacred system of caste.

We are seeing the formation of a new Indian caste a caste of rulers different from India s traditional Kshatriya caste before our very eyes.

There are, however, caste related problems.

Caste was irrelevant to the Buddha.

Caste, once again, is casting its shadow over India s politics. Caste based reservations (reserved places) in education and government employment are supposed to benefit India s most deprived, but in reality they have hardened, rather than eroded, India s ancient system of discrimination.

The Buddha said you could be from any caste.

Caste, once again, is casting its shadow over India s politics.

But boosters of caste politics claim that it is not economic deprivation but the social backwardness from which these castes have historically suffered that makes caste reservations necessary.

Hence, caste has not been an indicator of material deprivation, even during the early decades of the twentieth century. But boosters of caste politics claim that it is not economic deprivation but the social backwardness from which these castes have historically suffered that makes caste reservations necessary.

India s political system is built on the idea that even a country with profound differences of caste, creed, color, and culture can still rally around a democratic consensus.

Each caste contained a varying mixture of landless laborers, cultivators, and landlords.

Like existing castes, the new caste specializes in one occupation political office.

Beneath them were the warriors, the caste to which the Buddha belonged.

India is now becoming divided in much the same way, and for much the same reason the emerging system of reserved places aimed at redressing centuries of caste discrimination.

Many consider India s increasing mobilization along caste lines a welcome assertion of identity.

Whether caste is a good indicator of socioeconomic deprivation remains an unsettled issue.

Thus, the economic status of households varied a great deal within each caste.

Usually a prosperous caste succeeded in raising its rank in the ritual hierarchy.

In the article entitled Religion, religiosity and craftsmen, Cheikh criticised his country s discriminatory caste system, linking it to what he identified as similar practices from the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad.

Caste based reservations (reserved places) in education and government employment are supposed to benefit India s most deprived, but in reality they have hardened, rather than eroded, India s ancient system of discrimination.

Others are also historically marginalized from the social and political life of the nation, notably the Dalits, sometimes known as untouchables, who are at the bottom of the Hindu caste system.

Chief, why are you choking the very air of our village... ...with this caste division!

Indeed, the protagonists of caste politics and caste based public policy simply cannot validate their assertions, offering only small sample surveys that can be grossly misleading in the context of a huge country characterized by monumental diversity.

For example, less than one third of workers in this period followed their traditional caste occupations.

In any case, the majority of peasants belonging to any caste, upper or lower, were poor.

These values are free from the chains of caste, class, creed, gender, age, ethnicity and language.

A lot of the Indian problems are related to the ideology of caste and other things.

To fight the English is our duty but mixing a low caste... ...is like poisoning milk.

Devi's audacity in depicting the plight of a tribal woman not only highlighted the different treatment of women across the social caste system but also the treatment women receive in the world as a whole.

Since independence in 1947, a majority of India s prime ministers have been Brahmins, the highest Hindu caste.

If caste is a good indicator of deprivation now, it should have been even clearer in the past.

Workers belonging to each caste pursued a wide variety of occupations, although agriculture provided the bulk of employment.

Hence, caste has not been an indicator of material deprivation, even during the early decades of the twentieth century.

Unlike Dalit Sikhs and Buddhists, Muslim and Christian Dalits had not been granted Scheduled Caste status under domestic legislation.

The Lord who ferries us all across this sea of life... ...was himself ferried by a low caste boatman.

Since India gained its independence, the government has systematically refused to collect sufficient data on the socioeconomic aspects of caste.

Given India s religious, caste, and linguistic divides, politicians saw how easily they could leverage even a small following into votes.

Soon, Indian political parties began to break up, giving rise to a large number of regional and caste based parties.

Harijans are untouchables in India, not untouchable because they've got an illness or something, but because they're from lower caste.

A land divided by caste, creed, color, culture, cuisine, custom, and costume is united in consensus around a great conviction cricket.