The Origin Of The Caste System In India

Hinduism is a polytheistic religion meaning they worship multiple gods. Throughout history, these Hindu beliefs have had many effects on the Indian social structure and Indian culture.

Religion can be defined as beliefs and sentimental values of a particular community in a society. These beliefs trace their origins from the ancient texts present in that community. These texts generally contains about the deities and gods in the historic era. These texts portray the mythological deities and gods with supernatural powers and how the earth was created by the almighty using these powers. Almost each and every religious texts talk about their god and how their god created this world and human beings.

Our country India has long been a victim of classification of human beings on the basis of their race, gender, class, caste, estate, etc. We are all born with the same biological system but our shear luck decides where we are placed in the society. Human society is not homogeneous, but heterogeneous. A more appropriate term for this categorization is Social Stratification. It refers to a particular form of social inequality.

The Divine Will “There is will in God as there is intellect: since will follows upon intellect.” It is clear in this passage that St. Thomas asserts that there is will in God, which we call the divine will. All the perfection is in Him so one could say that the perfection of the will is in God since it follows upon intellect. The next question as regards the divine will that St. Thomas tried to elaborate upon is the question whether God wills something apart from Himself. St. Thomas clearly says yes, that God wills creatures apart from Himself and these creatures are ordered to the divine goodness that is God. St. Thomas argues that the will of God is extended to the creatures.

Social stratification otherwise caste is a way that society is graded and classified the people in a hierarchical way. Following main factors are involved in social stratification caste, class, sex, and ethnic background. Sociologists says that social stratification is a normal scenario in each society. There are various kinds of social stratification systems all around the world. The class systems are based on individual achievement and social mobility is the foundation of the class system.

A while ago, we had found this thing called the Standard Of Ur. It was a thing the mesopotamians built based on their social class and war. There was two sides to this object, each side explaining something different. One side had three layers and each layer represented a different level of social class, the bottom layer being the lowest level, the top layer being the highest. The bottom layer is (from what we can decipher) slaves, the middle is free-men, the top layer is kings/rulers or the royal people.

God is the creator of the world. God spoke and created the heavens and the earth. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1, NIV) He then followed by creating all the earthly creatures. “And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.” (Genesis 1:24, NIV)

Social exclusion is a much broader concept than poverty but it does encompass it. It focuses on what factors prevents an individual from having the same opportunity given to the majority of the community. In India even though the caste system was abolished in the 1950’s it is yet hard to get rid of the age old system that segregates the society groups such as the Adivasi’s and davits aka untouchables or even out caste are considered to be the lowest in the caste system and are excluded in many spheres of life. This I believe in some way creates an artificial poverty line which divides people based on caste, gender and religion. Birth would decide their occupation and their economic fate.

The caste system is a system which ranks people their social order hereditarily in Hinduism. It is also a division in socirty based on wealth, inherited rank, or occupation which a person cannot change the caste he or she has been born into. This word first originated and was used by Portuguese traders in the sixteenth century. It is taken from the Protuguese word casta. The origin of the caste system is somewhat unclear, but it seemed to have been around for more than two thousand years ago.

Priestly version of the creation of humanity, started talking about what God said when was creating the man “Let us make man in our image.” Organization is the language in this story because everything was created by God’s voice. As well, God is an active character, but he is not physically present in the story. In this version, God created man and woman at the same time “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created them.” In this story man and woman are equal and have the same power of subdue everything on earth. Also, when God created woman in this story she was named by him and has an original name given by her