Archive for the ‘Caste’ Category
Untouchability in Nepal? Shocking!!!
This article came as a shocker to me. Didn’t know Nepal had the same evil caste system as India.
Some of the highlights of the article are:
1. Public Taps for so called ‘upper caste people’ throughout the village, Dalits forced to fetch drinking water from river
2. Dalit women trashed for touching a public tap
3. This is [...]
August 22, 2006
Posted in: Caste, Caste System 
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Caste System - Ambedkar and Annihilation of Caste
Over the last couple of days I have been looking to see if there are/were any social movements to abolish the caste system. I started surfing the net and came accross a very interesting document and that is Ambedkar’s Annihilation Of Caste (AOC). This was a speech that Ambedkar had prepared when asked to [...]
July 20, 2006
Posted in: Caste, Caste System, India 17 Comments
Caste Sytem - Why is no one talking about abolishing it?
What does abolishing the caste system mean?
What does abolishing the caste system means? To some it means raising the level of backward caste to the same level of other castes so that they are all equal. To me that is not correct. That is a soceity were caste system exists and all castes are treated [...]
July 18, 2006
Posted in: Caste, Caste System, India 5 Comments
Caste Sytem - Can we really abolish it?
Caste System has been prevalent in the hindu society for thousands of years. In most parts of the country your caste can be identified just by your name and if that is not obvious you are expicitly asked what your caste is?
Why does that happen? It happens because people make implicit assumptions about your personality/character [...]
July 17, 2006
Posted in: Caste, Caste System, India 8 Comments