Indian caste system - Varna system

This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. Varna the word itself means colour. Varna system is a color based classification. But it is also a fact that that system was not originally based on color based divisions. Lord Krishna was a dark skinned person but he was a upper caste member. Classification was based on the occupations. Working conditions brings skin color chan ...

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• Indian caste system - Rig Veda - Purusha Sukta hymn
• Indian caste system - Origins of the system
• Indian caste system - Aryan invasion
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Indian caste system - Four Varnas. Traditional Last Names by Varna Brahmin --- Sarma; Deva Kshatriya --- Varma; Trata Vaisya --- Gupta; Bhuti Sudra --- Datta; Dasa The caste system, although not currently officially sanctioned by their governments, is used by Hindus, particularly in India and Nepal for reasons of determining lineage and is passed down through patrilineal descent. It is based on four varnas: See also:

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The late Swami Krishnananda, the successor to Swami Sivananda and former head of Divine Life Society, noted the following about caste in his autobiography: "While the caste system was originally evolved for the necessary classification of human duty in order to preserve the organic stability of society, its original meaning and its philosophical foundation was forgotten through the passage of time, and bigotry and fanaticism took its place through the preponderance of egoism, greed and hatred, contrary to the practice of true ...

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The caste system was first exposed to the modern Western world during the Portuguese occupation and rule of India. Later other European nations including the British occupied parts of the subcontinent and were interested in this phenomenon. Herbert Risley's The Tribes and Castes of Bengal, published in 1892, was one of the first works on caste in India by a Western scholar. Some scholars suggest that the resulting depiction of the caste system was as much a product of European racist theories, and the interests of colonial rule ...

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Indian caste system - Aryan invasion. According to this theory, the caste system began with the arrival of the Aryans in India. The Aryans are said to have arrived in India around 1500 BC. The light skinned Indo-Aryans, according to this theory, arrived in India from Central Asia. Before the Aryans there were other communities in India of other origins (see Indus Valley Civilization). Some of the most important of these are the Dravidian, the Mongol, the Austroloid and Tibeto-Burmese tribals. The Dravidians were the largest community in India, and are by some scholar ...

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Mixed in with the Varna caste system was the Jati sub-caste system. The Jati was effectively a system similar to guilds, and was associated with occupation. If the Varnas gave structure to society, the Jati gave structure to each Varna. Unlike the Varna system which required spiritual purity in order to ascend, Jati could be changed with occupation within a Varna. Marriages would be arranged usually within one's varna, but sometimes between Jati sub-castes. Due to its inheritability, there is a lot of 'caste prejudice' between ...

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The notion of Varna as an endogamous human types system for social harmoney rather than economic class system was first attested in the Rig-Veda. It generally refers to the four principal castes described in Manu's code, viz. Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras. Caste dharma need to be very strictly followed as you go up in the caste hierarchy. Thus, higher castes like Brahmins were under very high social restrictions and taboos in their conduct and life style, where as lower castes people it was lenient. It does not prevent l ...

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There is the Upanishadic story of a boy who went to a guru to learn the Hindu scriptures. His guru asked him what his caste was. Consulting his mother, who was actually a prostitute and didn't really know what her caste by birth was, the boy returned to the guru and responded that he was all castes. He worshipped the Gods, thus fulfilling the duties that are ordinarily a Brahmin's, he earned his keep like a Vaishya, took care of cleaning the house, like a Shudra, and protected his family's interest like a Kshatriya. The guru was pleased and ...

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