Indian Caste System...
Indian Caste System : Shaping the Occupations and Society Introduction:- The Indian Caste System is historically one of the major dimensions where people in india are socially differentiated through class , religion , region, tribe, gender, and language. The Indian Caste System is considered a closed system of stratification , which means that a person's social status is obligated to which caste they were born into. There are limits on interaction and behaviour with people from another social status. Caste Structure:- Defining the word "caste" itself is harder than thought to be. Risley defines it as "a collection of families or groups of families bearing a common name; claiming a common descent from a mythical ancestor, human or divine, professing to follow the same ...