PERSISTENCE OF CASTE SYSTEM IN THE CONTEMPORARY INDIAN SOCIETY: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY

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Keywords: caste, untouchable, discrimination, polluted

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Abstract: Caste system provided a regulatory mechanism for enforcing social and economic organization to ensure the social and economic organization by instruments of social ostracism and reinforce which has justification from philosophical elements in the Hindu religion. In Hindu social order has three important principles such as predetermination of social, religious and economic rights of each caste which based on their birth unequal and hierarchical divisions of three rights among the caste and provisions of strong social, religious and economic ostracism which has supported by social and religious ideology for maintain Hindu social order in India. Therefore, the doctrine of inequality is the core, heart of Hindu social order also. The Indian caste system governed by the principle of rank and gradation which ascending order from the untouchables to Brahmin, therefore, Indian caste system is a hierarchically interlinked with each other on the basis of specific manner that time rights and privileges of higher castes become disabilities of lower castes where caste exist multi or plural number single. Single caste cannot be viewed as isolation, therefore, it needs to be conceived as a societal governance system, therefore, it interlinked on the basis of unequal measures in social, cultural, religious and economic relations with each other. In Hindu social order isolation, marginalized, and exclusion to untouchables which is a unique feature, isolation and exclusiveness identified them as anti-social and inimical to one another.

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