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Looking at India's Caste system 2018-11-08 ¿ÀÈÄ 7:03:00

India has a caste system which divides the Hindus into four large groups of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras. These main castes could be further divided into 3,000 castes and 25,000 sub-castes. This system has been limited the living style, each groups of caste members had a set place to live their whole life. It has limited peoples social rank, imprisoning lower-ranking people from becoming a highly regarded status. Since 1950, after India¡¯s independence from Britain, the constitution had banned discrimination upon caste system, ¡®banned discrimination on the basis of caste, and, in an attempt to correct historical injustices and provide a level playing field to the traditionally disadvantaged¡¯ (Soutic, 2017) which allowed lower caste Indians to become the nation¡¯s leaders, for example, KR Naranyanan becoming the nation¡¯s first Dalit president.

But still, after 60 years since the discrimination is banned, an Indian migrant in Canada, Kamesh Ahir, still faces discrimination, ¡®¡¯I¡¯m in Canada,¡± she continues, frustration in her voice. ¡°But the bullshit castes are still here. We live it every day¡¯ (Cheryl, 2013). Business owners who are Dalits are afraid of exposing their background, changing their names, in the fear of customers stopping to patronise with them. Casteism is worse than racism in a way, as there is still discrimination even though they have same colour, language and living standards but faces discrimination. Ahir has a wish that her decedents won¡¯t know what this caste system is.


Sousic, B, 2017, What is India¡¯s Caste system, Available at https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35650616

Cheryl, C, 2013, India banned the Caste system 60 years ago, but it lives on for many in Metro Vancover, Available at https://theprovince.com/news/racism/india-banned-the-caste-system-60-years-ago-but-it-lives-on-for-many-in-metro-vancouver/wcm/609e4ac9-122c-4141-a676-e274d7f13266

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  India has a caste system which divides the Hindus into four large groups of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras. These main castes could be further divided into 3,000 castes and 25,000 sub-castes. This system has been limited to the living style each group of caste members had a set place to live their whole life. It has limited people¡¯s social rank, imprisoning lower-ranking people from becoming a highly regarded status. Since 1950, after India¡¯s independence from Britain, the constitution had banned discrimination upon the caste system, ¡®banned discrimination on the basis of caste, and, in an attempt to correct historical injustices and provide a level playing field to the traditionally disadvantaged¡¯ (Soutic, 2017) which allowed lower caste Indians to become the nation¡¯s leaders, for example, K.R. Narayanan who became the nation¡¯s first Dalit president.

But still, after 60 years since the discrimination is banned, an Indian migrant in Canada, Kamlesh Ahir, still faces discrimination, ¡®¡¯I¡¯m in Canada,¡± she continues, frustration in her voice. ¡°But the bullshit castes are still here. We live it every day¡± (Cheryl, 2013). Business owners who are Dalits are afraid of exposing their background, changing their names, in the fear of customers stopping to patronize them. Casteism is worse than racism in a way, as there is still discrimination even though they have the same color, language, and living standards, but faces discrimination. Ahir has a wish that her descendants won¡¯t know what this caste system is.


Soutic, B, 2017 What is India¡¯s Caste system? Available at https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35650616

Cheryl, C, 2013, India banned the Caste system 60 years ago, but it lives on for many in Metro Vancouver, Available at https://theprovince.com/news/racism/india-banned-the-caste-system-60-years-ago-but-it-lives-on-for-many-in-metro-vancouver/wcm/609e4ac9-122c-4141-a676-e274d7f13266
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