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Caste System In India
532 wordsThe caste system, or Varna, of India, came about when the Aryan speaking Nomadic groups came to India about 1500 B. C... The Aryan priests divided society into a caste system with four parts. This system determined Indian occupations. The priests and teachers were the highest caste. The second in rank were rulers and warriors, with merchants and traders third in rank. Last were the workers and peasants who were born to be servants to the other three castes. People could not change their caste. T...
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Good Or Bad Position In Society
2,665 wordsIndian Caste System The social function of the caste system in Indian culture was too ensure that the wealthy and powerful maintained their high social status and standard of living by making sure that the wealth was unevenly distributed. The members of the upper castes were lucky to inherit a perfect system that was started by the Nomadic Aryans who headed south into what is know as India today. They evolved the system with the use of Hinduism to maintain peace in a highly stratified society, w...
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Cambridge Cambridge University Women In India
2,675 words... it influences people to treat others, as they themselves would like to be treated. Reincarnation is the belief that a persons soul will return to an earthly body again and again until it is liberated from the cycle of life and death. The way to become liberated is by becoming increasingly detached from worldly things, a process that is understood to take innumerable lifetimes. Belief in reincarnation has an effect on behavior by giving Indians a more casual attitude toward the demands of tim...
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Caste System Social Class
438 wordsThe caste system Caste Caste The caste system in India is an important part of ancient Hindu tradition which dates back to 1200 BC. Portuguese travelers who came to India in the 16 th century first used the word caste. It means race, breed, or lineage. There are 3, 000 castes and 25, 000 sub castes in India, each related to a specific occupation. The purpose of the caste system is to divide Hindus of India into different social classes. There are five main classes, or Varna's. Brahmans, the high...
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Men And Women Hindu Religion
1,345 wordsNicole Billings International Studies May 16, 1999 Developing India He lives without memories of what has gone before or expectation of what lies ahead, and time is thus motionless (Marshall). This concept may be hard for Westerners to grasp, but for 660 million Hindus in India its what they go by. Religion is only one aspect of Indian culture, along with the caste system and family life that influences Indias globalization and population. In a world that is constantly changing India has potenti...
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Four Noble Truths Hinduism And Buddhism
2,449 wordsHinduism and Buddhism Introduction - Hinduism and Buddhism are two of the five major religions in our world today. They are widely practiced, and have survived for centuries. Both have similarities and differences, as do all forms of religion. Hopefully, in this paper I will show you the basic structure of each religion. I would also like to show how they compare and contrast. Hinduism: Foundation No one is completely sure of where Hinduism was started and by whom. Their oldest written documents...
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Merriam Webster Dictionary Oliver Cromwell
2,571 wordsCaste is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism, which is also a division in society based on wealth, inherited rank, or occupation, and allows little mobility out of the position to which a person is born. The word caste was first used by 16 th century Portuguese traders; it is taken from the Portuguese word casta. Varna, the word for caste, means color and referring to the old racial differences between conquerors and conquered. The basis ...
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Bhagavad Gita Rig Veda
3,925 wordsI. INTRODUCTION Are you really what you eat? Why are people born with certain unique tendencies? Are matter and spirit separate, or the same? Although seemingly unrelated, these questions are unified by the subject under consideration in this paper: the Hindu caste system. The caste system itself is unified by the concern of ritual purity. According to the Encyclop? dia Britannica: the caste system has been a dominating aspect of social organization for thousands of years. A caste, generally des...
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