A caste is a social category whose members are assigned a permanent status within a given social hierarchy and whose contacts are restricted accordingly. It is the most rigid and clearly graded type of social stratification. It has also often been referred to as the extreme form of closed class system. Sharply contrasted with the caste system, the open class [...]
Introduction: By no means is the concept of the social class the same as that of the 'caste' in India. The word 'caste' comes from the Portuguese 'casta' which stands for 'breed' or 'kind’ and is synonymous with the Sanskrit jati or jat. Manu's division of the Indian people into four principal varnas and an outcaste did not however at [...]
Some of the merits and demerits of caste system in India are as follows: Merits of Caste System: From time to time the Indian caste system has been attacked from various quarters and to it have been ascribed all the numerous evils from which society is suffering. […]