Question

Explain how caste system enforces practices of discrimination ?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

The Indian society is divided into four main castes- the Brahmins, Khastriyas, Vaishyas and the Shudras. Caste system forms the basis of discrimination when the people of lower castes are discriminated by the people of higher castes. The Shudras or the untouchables since centuries have been forced to do menial work and are looked down. They were also not allowed to receive any kind of education. # caste system classified people by their occupation and status.  Every caste was associated with an occupation, which meant that persons

born into a particular caste were also ‘born into’ the occupation associated

with their caste – they had no choice. Moreover,    #people from lower caste were restricted to enter into the temples even they to drink water from same well being use by upper caste. #– the ‘high’ castes were almost invariably of high  economic status, while the ‘low’ castes were almost always of low economic  status. # the practice of untouchability an extreme and particularly vicious aspect of the caste system  that prescribes stringent social sanctions against members of castes located at the bottom of the purity-pollution scale. Strictly speaking, the ‘untouchable’ castes are outside the caste hierarchy – they are considered to be so ‘impure’  that their mere touch severely pollutes members of all other castes, bringing  terrible punishment for the former and forcing the latter to perform elaborate

purification rituals .We can still see those unconstitutional practices in the society .the impact of caste systems  we can see in certain way yet some people from so low caste bound to do the work fixed for them by upper caste. for example scavenger