Caste System in India is curse to the society. This is man made system. The Arayans when they were invading India from Persia they invented this sytem to protect their Arayan stock from being mixed with the Dravidian stock who were the original habitants of this subcontinant. Harappa Mahanjodaro was the center of Dravidian Culture. As the Arayans were invading the Indian subcontinent the Dravidians were being pushed down south. The Rakhasas that were referred to in Indian mythological stories were non but the Dravidian people or the Dravidian kings, black with big noses and long ears, were fighting with the Arayan kings to save their home land. Rama was the Arayan king and Ayodhya was an Arayan kingdom. As these Arayans were getting mixed with the Dravidian people instead of throughing them out as bastards they started to give them a status as subcastes. They could not divide them anyfuther than 4 so they said the rest are outcastes. I wish we can do that in these modren times and extend the list of castes to more than 4 and include every body into a caste. Indstead of calling them out castes.
Unfortunately in these modren times the people from South also follow this great festival of lights which signifies the defeat of a Dravidian king over the Arayan kings. These are the festivals celeberated by the Northners but people of Dravidian culture also follow it blindly. These festivals are promoted to increase the commerce and to fill the coffers of the temples.
We were hoping that education in India will change the mental attitude of the people in modren times but the case is opposite. Why can't the modren society in India integrate these caste barriers and become one nation with no caste bars?. How people are killed every day in India because of this cast system? How many low cast people are deprived of their lively hood because they have no status in the society and because they had no choice in their birth. Is there any greater crime in this world than stigmatising a person because he/she was born into a family? Can I hate my mother and father because they gave birth? Because they belonged to some silly caste family the Brahamin has called as a low caste?
India is the only country where a person is disected into parts because of his birth. There is no difference between the blood of a Brahmin or the blood of a Dalit. The difference is only in the skin. There is no other country or a nation that divides people by their birth. There are segregations in way of status or amount of wealth some one acuires but not because of your birth. Can you imagine the people born into high caste in India, how they will feel when he/she is stigmatised because of being born into this world? Every person who is born in to this world wants to be proud of his/her birth regardless of caste, color or status.
The Brahmins in our country also cleverly invented this system for peopel to serve them for many lives by introducing a religious dogma called, "Karma". If you do good in your life and serve the Brahmin's cause well during you life time you will ultimately will be born as Brahmin, probably after thousand births. They not only hurt the people of India by cutting them into pieces by this system but made them to serve them as bonded laborers for life. May be I should not blame all the Brahmins of today. There are some good understanding Brahmins, like Nehur and others who did a lot to elminate this curse from our country. Gandhiji supposed to have said that Cast System is curse to India.
What surprises me the most is that, now a days, in these modren times, the young people of India are becoming even more regid in their thinking than their forefathers. Even when they move out of the country of their origin they exihibit these cast feelings. We have to appreciate the work of RSS and other BJP agencies in India who dogmatise these young minds through their school system, Central Schools.
I wish the government of India and each state governments in the country should make it a part of the education system to teach every child of India that Caste System is curse to the society and it is punishable under the law. In the Social study books there should be number of chapters dedicated to write against this system and each child should be educated to respect the birth of each Indian.
