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EQ: How has the caste system
shaped life in India?
“When God divided the man, Into how many parts did they divide him?
What was his mouth?What were his arms?
What were his thighs and feet called?The Brahmin was his mouth.
Of his arm was made the Warrior,His thighs became the Vaishya,
Of his feet the Sudra were born.”
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Brahmin
Kshatryia
Vaisya
Sudra
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The Caste System Brahmin
Priests, Teachers, Judges
Kshatryia - warriors
Vaishya – merchants/farmers
Sudras – laborers, supported the upper castes
Untouchable (Dalits, Outcasts) –Street Sweepers, latrine cleaners
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15% of India’s population=160 million Indians are…
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Lower-Caste Women
Work all day picking weeds for a wage as low as 50 cents/day.
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The Untouchables
*required to eat and drink from separate utensils and from different wells
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*forced into bonded labor
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*made to clean latrines (pit toilets) with bare hands and handle touching dead animals
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*They often had to wear a bell around their neck to warn people of a higher caste that they are coming… this was so that their shadow would not be cast upon them.
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*They were considered polluted.
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Migrants flock to the outskirts of cities to find
work.
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Blind man playing flute through nose
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A typical low-caste village family may have only one sari for all its women. While one woman wears the sari, four other women must wait inside.
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In contrast, you have the BRAHMINS!
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The caste system identity still plays a major role in Indian society. Blue is
traditionally a color of the Brahmins.
Brahmins often paint their homes Blue.
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A High-Caste Brahmin Wedding
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Brahmins depicted in artwork
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The Caste System Today
Caste discrimination is illegal!With education & industrialization the caste system is slowly disappearing.Unfortunately, religious bigotry, intolerance and hate crimes do exist.
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Social Distinctions Still Exist
A Brahmin physician wraps a Sudra’s wrist with a cloth before taking his pulse, so he will not to be "defiled" by touching the Sudra's skin.
A low-caste family is refused the right to bury a family member near their village, where both high and low castes live, because of the belief that the person's ghost will haunt the high-castes.
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The Reservation System:
Entitles a percentage of government jobs, elected offices, and positions in
college to go to the lower caste people.
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The quota system has caused tensions in this country of 846 million. The competition for jobs and education is intense in India. Middle class Indians say the quota system has given low-caste Indian opportunities at their expense.
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Higher-class Indians even pretend to be “backward” castes in order to land government jobs and college acceptance.
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Outraged by the wage and land-reform demands of
Untouchables, the Ranvir Sena, a militia led by landowners, has
been implicated in the massacres of more than 500
Untouchables. The attackers have gone largely
unpunished.
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1. List three Characteristics of the Caste System.a. b. c.2. How does the caste system provide a sense of order?
3. Why are the untouchables excluded from the Social Pyramid?
4. Who can untouchables be compared to in other civilizations?
5. Why do you think it is more difficult to combat the Caste System more so than other types of racism?
6. What are some suggestions you could offer the Indian Government to help stop this problem?
Questions to Ponder