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And in some countries, like India, the lower castes are condemned to empty the pits, and they're further condemned by society.
We need to stop the practice of lower castes and lower-status people going down and being condemned to empty pits.
Another possibility is the division of humankind into different biological castes, with the rich being upgraded into virtual gods, and the poor being degraded to this level of useless people.
By the mid-20th century, the original four castes associated with specific occupations had been divided into some 3000 sub-castes.
Though the caste system was Constitutionally abolished in 1950, it continued to shape social life in India, routinely marginalizing people of lower castes.
When Velutha and the twins’ mother, Ammu, embark on an affair, they violate what Roy describes as the “love laws” forbidding intimacy between different castes.
While these policies produced high-yield crops that staved off famine, they also forced people from lower castes off their land and caused widespread environmental damage.
The “third front” involves assorted petty particularisms – parties representing the sectarian interests of specific castes, sub-regions, or linguistic groups.
In India, certain historically disadvantaged groups (particularly among the lower castes) are now politically assertive.
The Indian idea is that a nation may contain different castes, creeds, colors, convictions, cuisines, costumes, and customs, yet still rally around a consensus.
The significant changes since independence in the social composition of India’s ruling class, both in politics and in the bureaucracy – with leaders from the formerly “untouchable” and backward castes elected to high office – have vindicated democracy in practice.
But so deep is the prejudice in Indian society that many converted Sikhs found that their new co-religionists of higher castes, who dominate the faith’s official religious bodies, treated them no better than Hindus had.
Should a new, federal Nepal be divided into states along a north-south axis, as the ruling parties prefer, even though this would give the dominant hill castes of the north a majority everywhere?
This should boost India's per capita income;2. old social barriers to education for girls and lower castes are giving way, under democratic pressures, to strong calls for universal education.
Indeed, nowadays political parties dangle the carrot of reservations to ever more castes, and even promise to extend the policy to admissions into elite educational institutions and the private sector.
Some go so far as to argue that the recent rise of the lower castes in northern Indian politics and the implementation of reservations by the central government amount to a silent revolution, and that the politics of caste is secular and a bulwark against religious sectarianism.
Moreover, these studies typically pool castes into three large groups, which distorts the real picture.
Access to literacy and to jobs in the government sector and modern professions was limited to a small section of the population usually belonging to the high castes.
Farmers, the single largest occupational group in most castes, with ritual rank ranging from high to low, were highly differentiated in terms of size and economic status.
The size of holdings was similar for most upper castes and some lower castes.
In many castes of low ritual rank, landlords, prosperous cultivators and traders were found, some of whom actually paid income tax.
Generally, most high-ranking castes occupied high economic positions, and the majority of the “untouchable” castes were confined to the lowest economic positions.
In some regions, e.g., Mysore (Karnataka), Madras (Tamil Nadu) and Uttar Pradesh, some lower castes occupy higher economic positions than high castes.
The most obvious fact in the data is the great disparity in the economic positions of castes sharing the same ritual rank.
Such differences are particularly acute for middle-ranking castes, which are now called OBC’s, and are observed in all parts of India.
Even among the untouchables, some castes have higher economic status than others.
Among the middle-ranking, agricultural castes, some had high economic status due to improved agriculture, brought about by canal irrigation and commercialization.
Most other cultivating and artisan castes, enjoying similar ritual ranks as the financially more successful group, occupied much lower economic positions, which resulted in an amazing degree of heterogeneity among backward castes.
In some regions – Uttar Pradesh, Bombay (Maharashtra and Gujarat), and the Telugu speaking areas of Madras (Andhra Pradesh) – the lowest economic positions were occupied by some “backward” castes, not by untouchables.
But boosters of caste politics claim that it is not economic deprivation but the social backwardness from which these castes have historically suffered that makes caste reservations necessary.
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