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The Caste System In The Twentieth Century

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2.8. CASTE AS AN UNIQUE SOCIAL STRUCTURE: The Caste system is a unique socio-religious-political-economic and cultural structure, but it is not the only socio-religious structure which divides the society between priests, nobles, soldiers and craftsmen but also it divides human beings into touchable and untouchables . Before the intellectual enlightenment and industrialization ages it was common for the whole world societies have such economic divisions if not social divisions. What makes the caste system unique in its twentieth century is its system of inter-class-caste relations. Because of its unique socio-religious and cultural structures and being like a time machine which shows us the old times of Brahmin atrocities through …show more content…

The Ancient Empires, medieval renaissance, American Declaration of Independence, the French Revolution (inspired by John Locke's and Montesque's “Liberalism”, Rousseau's “democracy” and the Marxist theory of class were born out of scientific reasoning and empirical observation of working class exploitation by feudal and capitalist societies. Whereas the philosophy of Dalits and Lokayats are essentially rooted as a movement against caste in South Asia and here there is oppression on the basis of caste that is imposed by Hindu …show more content…

Regulations of politics are varied. We have to consider on what basis these rules are laid down. Political speculation is nothing but the systematization of ethical and political judgments of our activities. Political activity is a decision-making activity, which seeks to put in order or make peace diverse welfare, claims and stress of various wholes in a society by supervising its creative and distributive equipment. Conventional political speculation is a combination of diverse kinds of investigation or theory. One can differentiate three different impulses: truth-seeking, sociological and ideological. In case of traditional thinkers like Plato, Hobbes, Locke and Hegel, their political assumption is philosophical. Every of these thinkers had tried to connect their conclusions about political association or about the 'ends' of political life, with a wider theoretical

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