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How did British rule help in diluting caste discrimination?
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The Britishers put up a law in which , all the soliders ( most of them were Indians ) were not allowed to put Tilak ,.robes around there chest ,.the Muslims were not allowed to wear taqiyah
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The caste system had been a fascination of the British since their arrival in India. Coming from a society that was divided by class, the British attempted to equate the caste system to the class system. As late as 1937 Professor T. C. Hodson stated that Class and caste stand to each other in the relation of family to species. The general classification is by classes the detailed one by castes
The difficulty with definitions such as this is that class is based on political and economic factors caste isnot
British saw caste as a way to deal with a huge population by breaking it down into discrete chunks with specific characteristics. Moreover as will be seen later in this paper it appears that the caste system extant in the late 19th and early 20th century has been altered as a result of British actions so that it increasingly took on the characteristics that were ascribed to by the British.
The difficulty with definitions such as this is that class is based on political and economic factors caste isnot
British saw caste as a way to deal with a huge population by breaking it down into discrete chunks with specific characteristics. Moreover as will be seen later in this paper it appears that the caste system extant in the late 19th and early 20th century has been altered as a result of British actions so that it increasingly took on the characteristics that were ascribed to by the British.
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