Caste System

they categorized them from poor rich and average everyday people

Several characteristics distinguish a caste system.

1.The first is the tendency toward endogamy, meaning that people marry within the same caste exclusively.

2.Caste mobility is also extremely rare; one cannot transform from a laborer to a scholar except in very rare circumstances, for example. Higher castes traditionally hold all of the political power.

3.The castes may be divided further through language, culture, and economics.

4.Within a caste system, each member generally knows his or her place, and your social status is usually apparently to others as well.

because he came after all

Parvatharajakulam-Meenavars are the agnikula Kshatriyars..because meenavars had the title in the ancient period.So meenavars had the Agnikula Kshatriyar Title

It does not allow for upward mobility in society. If a person's family comes from the lower economic strata, in a society based on a caste system, that person would need to remain within that restricted level. However so long as a caste system is designed on he basis that people placed in a given caste have the appropriate skills and disposition for their a caste it improves efficency as over time people in a given caste will become more specialized at fulfilling the duties of their caste. This however is often not the case and castes are more often based solely on social and economic power, not the actual suitability of the given people's abilities to their caste.

The highest caste is the Brahmin caste.

Nairs are Kshatriyas of kerala, all the royal houses and 90% of militias were from them,they are the first native warriors who defeated a Europian naval force (kulachal war against Dutch East India Company) They fought against all the invaders like the Portugese who failed to get a hold in kerala and later they moved to Goa, English also got stiff opposition from nairs under the leadership of Pazhasi Raja, Veluthampi Dalava, Paliyathu Achan etc. Their main Kingdom of Travancore was never surrendered to any colonial power. The British through deceit tried to dispocess their powers by influencing the kings but was never able to annex Travancore to British India.

yes becoz of low education and their olf pattern of weaving clothes which do not yild quantity and quality of clothes as new tecnologis do

He is a Punjabi saraswat brahmin.

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untouchable

The Indian government thought that all people should be treated differently based on their wealth or religion. The system was in ordered and controlled by the government. They put the higher classes (ruler, warrior, landowner) at the top of the pyramid and the lowest classes (agriculture, farming) at the bottom. Gandhi was against the caste system.

Origin of the word: Pattinavar. Pattina-avar

Those who lived in the pattinam (the cities). Pattinavars were once a warrior tribe who vaded the ocean and high seas and protect their empires from invasion. The kings of those days had classified their brave men in categories like PARAVAR, MARAVAR..

Sanskrit root -> Pravaag (water).

Those who ruled and protected their land from enemies who invade through sea.

Maravar, protected the land by fighting from the land.

E.g. Visakhapatnam, Chennaipatnam (Madras),

In Tamil calling anyone using AVAR, AVARGAL (they, them), IVAR, IVARGAL (He, Him) is a respectful term.

All shape society and affect each other.

Examples--does your religion say that it is okay to amass wealth while people starve? Do you believe that women should have equal rights as men? When is war justifiable?

the aryans

In India,there are hindu system among people to follow in rural areas. Likewise, Kindly give me the complete details of the caste system or any other religion system among people in China

Hindu beliefs about rebirth and karma are tied to the caste system. The Hindu people believe that a persons caste is a result of karma and that deeds in past lives are responsible for ones current position (in the caste).

That when the caste system began people may have acted differently, by being as good as they can be so they don't get reincardinated as the untouchable.

The caste system was an oppressive hierarchical social system designed by the ancient rulers and religious leaders of India. That system was economically similar to other equivalent systems of the highly developed civilizations of the world. The caste system is equivalent to the class system that is practiced in most developed nations of the world. That system was designed to function in a similar manner as honeybees and army ants. The caste system was more rigid and oppressive than the class system. The superior caste/class established rigid social separations between the working class and the masters. Religion was used to endorse this bigotry by proclaiming that the divisions were established by their Gods as part of a graduation process called reincarnation. Approximately five thousand years ago there was a rebellion among the religious heads with respect to the crude rituals which involved animal and human sacrifices. These leaders also held significant differences of opinions regarding the social oppression practiced under the corrupt caste system. The rebel group eventually created their own belief system known as Jainism. Another religious leader came along at around 500 BC creating his own belief from samplings of other systems and it was called Buddhism. Then there came Emperor Asoka who reigned over most of India. Emperor Asoka was a follower of the Buddhist belief and consistent with the practice of imperialism, he introduced his beliefs as the superior religion to the old oppressive Vedic religious practices. His actions significantly reduced the horrible atrocities of the Vedic religion for some time. The new religious teachings had more respect for human rights and equity it also made the citizens more docile through the concept of non-injury and nonviolence. The dismantling of the social structure resulted in many divisions within the society which eventually made it easy for the Islamic Mongolian invasion. The various factions of beliefs that existed before the Islamic invasion, came together against a common enemy that threatened to annihilate their cultures and beliefs. A modified version of the old oppressive Vedic religion was created to include some aspects of Buddhism and the caste system was further weakened. Gandhi came along as the ultimate human rights activist under the terrorism of British Christian imperialism and he condemned the caste system for creating divisiveness among his people. Science and civil rights activists have become the ultimate nemesis against the oppression, terrorism and bigotry of religion, exposing the deceit and injustice of religion and its various forms of bigotry. As a result the caste system and all other forms of bigotry will eventually be outlawed

The answer to this is as obvious as why is there slavery. The cast system is very much like apartheid. with apartheid it was easer to uphold because of the obvious physical racial differences. the cast system ce3pt the poor apart wit a view to using their labor at the lowest possible price. the poor had no influence on the status quo and the rich taught them what they felt they needed to know. It all worked very well until outside forces started to educate these poor beggars.

the cast system is a way to categorize the Hindus in india.

a figment of the intolerant pride of the Brahman, rests upon a foundation of fact which scientific methods confirm, that it has shaped the intricate grouping of the caste system, and has preserved the Aryan type in comparative purity throughout Northern India.

The Caste System divided people into groups....the Upper class..THe Middle Class..and The lower class.