WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A caste system is a class structure that is determined by birth. Loosely, it means that in some societies, the opportunities you have access to depend on the family you happened to be born into. The phrase caste system has been around since the 1840s, but we’ve been using caste since the 1500s.

Detailed explanation-2: -India’s caste system has been influential. One’s caste can control access to political power, land, and police or judicial assistance. Castes also tend to influence local politics by being local to certain areas. Political parties in everywhere tend to represent the interests of specific castes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw caste-based discrimination in Seattle has thrust this complex-and often misunderstood-system into the spotlight.

Detailed explanation-4: -These varnas became known as the Caste System. A Caste System divided Indian society into groups based on their birth, wealth, or occupation. The caste to which a person belonged determined his or her place in society, including who that person’s spouse, friends, and occupation could be.

Detailed explanation-5: -The caste system is a societal order built on religious and cultural norms in which the population of a state is divided into a hierarchy of classes. The members of the different levels of this system have different degrees of purity or worthiness and therefore have different rights.