WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -jati-a social group that does a particular job and that a person is born into. There are thousands of jatis. Karma-a concept found in Hinduism and other Indian traditions about how the good and evil done in a past life determines what happens to one’s soul in the next life.

Detailed explanation-2: -A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system.

Detailed explanation-3: -Varna and jāti The terms varna (theoretical classification based on occupation) and jāti (caste) are two distinct concepts. Jāti (community) refers to the thousands of endogamous groups prevalent across the subcontinent. A jati may be divided into exogamous groups based on the same gotras.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Jati was a subdivision of the communities in the Indian social order which was broadly divided into four Varnas. Caste is a much older system of classification than Jati. Jati helped in identification within one’s own Caste. Jati system of classification got degraded into the modern caste system.