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    generation, female, rural and the lower caste students. This has changed student demographics in academic disciplines. Due to diverse students’ group on college campuses, the higher education institutions are facing diversity, social justice and discrimination issues. Caste-based discrimination is one of the issues which is pervasive across the institutions in India (Neelakandan & Patil, 2012; Nambissan, 2006 & 2009; Patwardhan & Palshikar, 1992). The lower caste students have been experiencing discrimination

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    Siddhartha Caste System

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    Effects of the Caste System The Hindu caste system plays a major role in how Siddhartha acts throughout the novel. As the novel progresses the readers follow Siddhartha on his journey to achieve Nirvana. While on the journey, Siddhartha is influenced by each level of the system on a mental and physical level. In the Hindu religion, the caste system plays a major role in the lives of millions of people. But after a Buddhist reform movement, the caste was adopted by the Buddhists. So it plays a major

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    Dictionary.com defines a Hindu Caste as "any of the social divisions into which Hindu society is traditionally divided, each caste having its own privileges and limitations, transferred by inheritance from one generation to the next." The Hindu caste system divides the Hindus into four hierarchical ranked castes, also referred to as the varnas. These castes include the Brahmins, Kshatriya ,Vaishya, and the Shudra. According to study.com, the Brahmins were known to be the priestly class of Hindu

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    The Indian caste system is historically one of the main elements where people in India are socially differentiated through classes, religions, regions, tribes, genders, and languages. Caste is a term which is used to specify a group of people having a specific rank. The Indian term for caste is jati and generally designates a group that can vary in size from a handful to many thousands. The various jati are traditionally arranged in hierarchical order and fit into one of the four basic varnas – Brahmins

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    The caste system in ancient India and citizenship in ancient Greece both have their strengths and weaknesses in their effectiveness concerning social organization in society. India and Greece developed around the same time, within a thousand years of urban revolution as ancient city based civilizations, even so these two societies developed in entirely different ways. (Worlds, 2384) In Ancient India it was the caste system and in ancient Greece it was citizenship, the caste system a group of people

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    Separation of the many allows for easy rule by the one. Many tyrants and dictators have known this since the dawn of human civilization, and as such caste systems were implemented across the globe in many differing nations and continents. The caste system was once more implemented in The Handmaid’s Tale, as the women were separated by their jobs and envious of each other’s freedoms, no matter how small. The marthas able to talk, The handmaid’s able to go on walks, etc. This caused a social divide

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    The Caste System

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    their political structure of the caste system and also their religion of Hinduism, but slowly departed away from long distance trade with other societies. Although the caste system was a social structure, it helped stabilize India’s political foundation. Based on the citizen’s profession, the caste defined their social standing. This system contained 5 main levels; the Brahmans were the priest, highest of the caste, they ruled and ordered by telling the lower castes what to do, helping to govern the

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    partition known as the caste system. With its roots in the Hinduism, those Hindu and other are affected by the Hindu society structure. There are four major divisions in caste, and each division individual has specific responsibilities in society. The word dharma is, “conformity to religious law, custom, duty, or one's own quality or character” (Dictionary.com). One’s are allowed to perform those responsibilities assigned by one’s particular caste. In the religion term each caste is called Varna. The

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    Caste system is a social evil that is present in the Indian society since the ancient times. It has been criticized immensely by the people over the years however it still has a strong hold on the society. Essay on Caste System in India A number of social evils have been prevalent in the Indian society since centuries and caste system is one of them. The concept has undergone certain changes over the centuries and is not as stringent as it was in the earlier times however it still impacts the religious

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    change the world.” Education has an effect on our lifestyle, and our world. The caste system is a class structure. Sometimes it can determine by birth. If your parents are rich then you are rich. Kind of like that. The caste system is a huge part of to Kill a Mockingbird. It shows the difference between the Finches lifestyle and education, to the Ewells lifestyle and education. The Finches are on top of the caste system. The family consists of Scout, Jem, Atticus, and their relatives. Scout

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