CASTE SYSTEM

Abstract

The caste system is a complex social phenomenon particularly found in the Indian society. Caste is an arguable issue in the contemporary Indian context and it negatively being related to the provisions for the regulation of social control and determination of an individual status. Caste is the most striking institutional form taken by hierarchy. From the beginning of the human civilisation itself caste discrimination, untouchability and marginalization have very intensively and adversely affected the society and made life miserable. This idea is constructed by Hindu society; as a result, it creates a scenario where the discrimination, untouchability and negligence get practiced in the society. Nowadays in some of the churches we can see scheduled caste Christians are looked down as defiled people by the high caste Christians.