Caste System Disadvantages

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The caste system is the classification of one’s social statuses. It was first used by the Aryans which was founded in areas across India there are many advantages and disadvantages to this system. One advantage of the caste system was the ability to form close communities and groups of people which paired people off into groups. With that being said whatever caste system you were born into you must stay there because it divided people by their occupation level, others of that same label would come together to pair up and work as a whole. Jatis was formed as a class of the caste system. People within the jatis would intermarry and care for each other. It also allowed foreign peoples to find a place in the society. Although, the caste system…show more content…
Caste system also led to inhuman practices like Sati, infanticide, prostitution and exploitation of man by other men. Lack of suitable bachelors or brides in one’s own caste led to some immoral practices and crimes. 9. Caste system gave birth to the inhuman and immoral practice of untouchability in the Hindu society. In the ancient period and even in the recent past, a mere touch of an untouchable used to regard as a sin. The so called untouchables remained barred from some social and religious activities and places. Individual freedom remained crushed under the weight of the evil practice of untouchability. Our Constitution now prohibits this inhuman practice and holds it to be a criminal offence which entails strict punishment. 10. In the past Caste System caused grave injustice to women. It prescribed a double standard of morality, one for man and the other for woman. A man who indulged in any anti-social activity was only rebuked but a woman committing the same act used to face excommunication from her caste and even used to be punished. Everyone now agrees that basically the caste system, particularly the one which has remained a feature of Indian society, has worked as an evil system of inequality, exploitation and injustice. How it's
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