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THE CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA ARE OVER 3500 YEARS

 

Here I would like to say, at all my friends directly in India (Mumbai, Kerala, Pune, Rajasthan, Delhi) say "thank you - Shukriya - Dhanyawad Dil Se" them all, to helped me the historical about the Caste System would Background myself with the update.

 

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The Caste System in India is usually misunderstood and  missinterpreted

The Caste System or Varna - Ashrama has been one of the most misrepresented, misunderstood, misused and most maligned aspects of Hinduism. If one wants to understand the truth and the original purpose behind the Caste System, one must pursue the Evolution of the Caste System up to antiquity. The evolution of the Caste System must also be studied.  The Caste System, which is said to be the mainstay of the Hindu social order, has no Sanction in the Vedas. The ancient culture of India was based upon a System of social diversification according to SPIRITUAL development, not by birth, but by his Karma. This System became hereditary and over the course of many centuries degenerated as a result of exploitation by some priests, and other socio - economics elements of society.
 

This chapter is not a justification of the abuse of Caste System; rather it is a collection of interesting information. Caste System has enabled Hindu civilization to survive all invasions and made Indian society stronger. The Caste System served a purpose, performed certain functions, and met the needs appropriate to the times in history. India's caste norms may once have had a rationale; but the norms are outlived today. Caste System is not stagnant and is undergoing changes under the impact of modernization. Caste System should undergo reforms in the social arena so that unjustified discrimination and abuse is eliminated.

Rose Marie 09.08.2006

 

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The Caste System brought the Aryer to India

 The roots of the caste nature can be retraced in the second pre-Christian millennium. About 2000 to 1500 v. Chr. the first Aryer (Aryer, the noble ones) emerged and immigrated in several invasion waves over the Hindu Kusch. There they displaced and subjected the native Drawiden as well as Dasas (Indonegride).  

 The Aryer (as they called themselves) were half wild mounted Nomads; who bred cattle and originally came from central Asia. Their early penetrations can be regarded as one of the most important events in Indian history because it determined and culturally coined/shaped the further development of India until today. The society of these winner trunks was already partitioned before the invasion in „categories “: in Brahmanen (priest), Kshatra (war aristocracy) as well as Vish (the usual master members), which operated cattle breeding and agriculture. In meetings the power of the Sabha (king) was controlled.

Firstly, the noble Fighters assumed highest rank. But soon it came to the controversy between aristocracy and priests, at which finally the Brahmanen interspersed themselves. The Aryer defeated the Drawiden because of their equitation’s. Due to their brighter skin colour they were regarded as than the noblemen and privileged, they then organised themselves into a group called Varna (Colour). 

The Portuguese introduced in 16. Century when they came to India the common term Castas (clan, family) when they noticed that the Indian society was split up into numerous groups. With progressive division of labour the Caste nature developed. At first the Caste system designated different occupational groups, between which one could change. Later the Caste affiliation was not only hereditary, it could also be regarded by everyone than their personal Karma. The caste-officials wanted to exclude the low conditions from the Farmers, in order to be able to seize their workers.

The presently well known classical Caste system has only gradually developed with its four main castes: At the highest Place stood the Brahmanen (priests and scholars), followed by the Kshatriyas (fighters), the Vaishyas (Farmers and Traders), and the lowest Shudras (workers and subjects). The Brahmanen justified this organization of the people classes with the myth of sacrificing the Ur-giant of the PURUSA that is stated in the Rig-Veda, the oldest collection of the Veden.

„To the Brahmanen its mouth became, the arms were turned to fighters, the dealers were from thighs, from the feet of the farmhand were at that time brought forward

 “In this text the sharp demarcation which excludes the marriage between the Caste member and the other opposite Caste is not yet brought out.

The society was divided in four main categories according to the occupation: Yadavs and Biswasto who are not shudras, they are too different and can be   recognised through their name “sir”. Yadavs belonged to the farmers who had to earn their living in a difficult way with cows and milk products like butter & buffalo butter and milk products.

 Starting from approximately 800 v. Chr. the victim cult played an ever stronger role in the Religion.

Where in former times victims in houses and victim places still took place, the Brahmanen began with the building of temples and complex, obscure rites, in order to develop their primacy always further. One believed even so far that only the priests and their victim actions could affect the favour of the gods. In this time the legal texts of Manu developed (Manu - smrti).

 The Brahmanen fought the Caste mixture and regarded it as the origin of all evil. Therefore they wrote the law book of the Manu, a revealing of goddess naturalness, which should have been the master father of mankind. This law book became the foundation for the social and religious world of the Hindus, the first and most important work after vedischen excessive quantity (smrti). The law book Manus with its box rigorism sits down surprisingly only starting from the Indian Middle Ages in such a way specified 400 for Chr. through.

 According to this law book marriage is likewise predetermined like of occupation and social prestige of the individual. Completely in the center thereby is the conception of the ritual purity Even the physical contact with a low Caste sharing a meal and Sexual intercourse can make one impure. Any impurity, forces one if at all possible, to carry out appropriate cleaning. In order conserve the purity the individuals in the Caste, the Brahmanen introduced innumerable regulations: Requirements, prohibitions, cleaning rites, Excommunication.

 The origin of the class company lay in the concern of the Aryer to mix itself with the dark native. The dark membranous should be isolated and made servable. A new group came up for the so called Casteless, untouchable ones and the dismissed ones, dalits or harijan (children of God like Gandhi called them). Manu decided that their possession was to be dog and donkey and their dresses the garments of the dead ones. 

It is remarkable that even under the untouchable ones this structure of hierarchies was continued, i.e. also Harijans again differentiate between untouchable ones and most untouchable ones, depending on the residence and on the way they handle certain materials. The untouchable one may still sweep the road, whereas the most untouchable ones are responsible for removal of waste, dead bodies and Excremental.  (a particularly hard time is during Monsoons because during this time everything is washed up and they a chance do not have themselves to protect against the smells of the Excrement.)

 Up to this very day, the Indians have preserved a pronounced skin colour complex: Persons with dark skin colour have fewer chances on the marriage market or they are pitifully smiled at. Skin creams, which bleach the Taint European brightly, are very popular among the Indian women. The life in today's Hindu Society, most of all in the villages, is more strongly regimented, just like the case was approximately before 2000 years

 In the course of the generation a group was formed jati (under castes) the so called occupation interested group, which consists of approx. 30,000. The exact number is hardly ascertainable, since constantly new groups are being formed, and others however become extinct. This under Caste System is from region to region again partitioned. Even many Indians are not able to see through the complicated hierarchy Caste System any more. The Caste System cannot be waived by a change of faith. Despite the conversion to Christianity, there are still Brahmanen-Christians and Shudra -Christians who would still not marry among themselves, even Indian Muslims maintained a kind of caste system.

 The exact Caste affiliation is not normally to be regarded to a Indian. One recognizes the affiliation to caste and religion usually by the surname; Mr. Biswas would /be a Bengali Shudra, Mrs. Chatterjee a Bengali Brahmanin, Mr. Gandhi a Vaishja from Gujarat and Mr. Nehru a Brahmane from the Kashmir. There are also surnames, which can  exceeded Caste borders and can not be necessarily traced to  their carrier, like a Mr. Patel, Desai or Malik, or a Mrs. Metha or Chaudhuri.

Many North Indians, who live in Thailand or other Asiatic countries, have found a cleverer solution to mask their low Caste status. They changed their names on short notice i.e. they were called Yadav before (members of the Shudra caste) and are now called Dudey or Pandey, the name of a Brahmanen. Also into the Hindi films the names of the heroes or heroines for the Indian spectators play an important role. They give them information about social status and religion. For example the first name Amar refers to a Hindu, Akbar a Muslim and Anthony a Christian. Sharma for example refers to the status of a Brahmanen, Khan a Muslim and Singh a Sikh.

 Officially in 1947 as India attained her Caste prohibitions were expressed, i.e. the equality of all Indian citizens was legally embodied.

 Each citizen is to freely have principle entrance to all social institution. Ever since then, Ratio regulations are likewise to guarantee entrance to national jobs for the Caste less. 

 In today's cities of India, into which more humans flow, the Caste borders are increasingly smearing themselves because of the closer contact in the working sphere. Possession, incomes and training decide ever more on classification and evaluation of each single one. The reputation can appoint itself less and less to ritual privileges and the innate status; rather it must be acquired in a competitive possession and efficiency bonus plan. By unemployment conditions change. 

Today a Brahmane can live in poverty or earn his living  as a cook, scrubber or tourist guide while  members from the lower Caste are generally economically well off like the Vaishyas (Farmers & Traders). A member of the Dhobis (caste of the scrubbers) can have, opposing to that in the stock exchange or a real estate business a lot of success.

 

 

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