causes of casteism
Causes of casteism.
In our last
blog, we talked about types of casteism in this blog we are going to talk about
the causes of casteism refers to one-sided loyalty in favor of a particular
caste. Casteism leads the member of one caste to exploit the member of the
other caste for their own vested interest in the name of superiority or
inferiority the root of casteism is the religious theory claims that the varnas
were created from the body of the Brahma. The creator of the world the
Brahmanas were created from his naval the Kshatriyas from his hands the
vaishyas from his things and the Sudras
from his feet
The major
cause of casteism is
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Sense of caste prestige :
It is people’s strong desire to enhance caste
prestige Members of a particular caste or sub-caste tend to develop loyalty to
their caste every member tries to keep up their caste prestige and superiority
over another caste intact
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Caste endogamy :
Prohibition on marrying outside a defined community is called endogamy
it is one of the cornerstones of the Indian caste system the decline of
intermarriage between different communities as found by these scientists is to
the spread of the caste
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Casteism’s impact on urbanization:
urban-dwellers do not strictly
conform to caste norms there is a change in commensal relations, marital
relations, social relations, as well as in occupational relations a study of the caste
system in Bihar revealed that urbanization does affect uniformly
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