Roaming in India, if an Indian is asked about his caste, then it will not be a matter of surprise for him, because even after 71 years of independence, in this secular nation, whether it is just for a few hours of communication or for a lifetime Any relationship that can be maintained, it is only the issue of caste that connects two people. That's why maybe it has become necessary to talk about casteism. Its definition is also not limited, the selfishness that is hidden inside the word casteism, only he can explain it well in one word. In fact, casteism is made up of two words that turn its direction, "caste" means a community that is linked to economic and social relations, and "ism" means a systematic opinion or principle. It is not known when it becomes excessive, in such a situation, this word casteism, made up of caste + casteism, can affect not only a particular community but the whole society in a wrong way. And now it is used a lot in politics, that is why casteism is getting so much nutrition even in a secular, secular democratic country like India.
Origin and History of Casteism in India
It is difficult to tell when casteism originated in Indian society. Because in ancient times, humans used to live in small groups. Then in this sequence, it is not possible to find out the time when these groups changed into one caste. But it can definitely be understood how the stereotype of casteism would have been born. When external attacks started on the country, casteism kept getting complicated in its effort to save its existence. In this way, the caste was bound by some rules like rotibandi, betibandi. These names were formed with the suffix “bandi”, because in both these words roti means employment and daughter means the marriage of the daughter was bound by setting a limit. Roti-bandi means not sharing your food and your employment with anyone outside your caste. Whereas in Betibandi marriage of daughters out of caste was prohibited. For this reason in India, caste and sub-caste and even further classification has taken place in many religions and religions, but its justification is not necessary from anywhere for the immediate circumstances.
Caste classification in India was a bit difficult, because there were many factors apart from caste, which could determine caste. The caste system was basically based on 4 varnas – Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra.
In fact, it was a karma-based system, in which caste was determined by a person's karma. In which caste had nothing to do with the ancestors of a person. For example, if the child of a Kshatriya is interested in the work of a Vaishya, then the child used to get the character of Vaishya, but with the passage of time, all this changed and caste was determined genetically, as the children of Kshatriyas would be called Kshatriyas, in the same way Children of other castes will also follow their father's caste and his deeds.
Casteism at Social Level
It is not enough to divide the society into two parts due to casteism, but its effectiveness started to be ensured when one of these two classes started gaining power, while the effect of exploitation on the other class started increasing. Because of this, where one caste became advanced and prosperous, the other caste started to decline and all the ways of development started getting closed. According to RN Sharma “Casteism is blind faith of a person towards his own caste which does not care for the interests of other castes. And takes care of fulfilling the social, economic, political and other needs of their caste.
Casteism in Politics
As long as casteism was at the social level, the problems related to it were definite and limited, but due to the effect of casteism in politics, the country started dividing. The counting of caste determined votes further divided the society. It was used to promote hatred and separatism. And all the anti-social activities started spreading, because the caste stamp started helping any criminal to escape with the help of votes and notes. In this way, as political equations became caste-based, the foundation of constitution-based democracy started shaking.
Casteism signs
The idea of casteism shows the importance of honesty and dedication of castes and sub-castes. It either ignores or does not care about the interests of other castes. For any casteist, the principle of “man of my caste and only my caste is right or wrong” is everything. Casteist people are against democracy.
Casteism can only give justice to one side, which is beneficial for its caste, even if it violates any limit of humanity. Casteism is a big obstacle for the development and progress of any country, and It is also against the constitution.
The possibility of exploitation increases a lot in casteism, in this one caste becomes high and another caste becomes low, and in this way the caste with less power gets exploited. And there is no fixed area for the determination of this high-low. Like money, education and karma have been the main reasons for caste-based classification. In which Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas automatically came in Savarna and all other castes Became a victim of their exploitation.
Reasons of Casteism
Protecting the honor of one's caste: Any person is proud of his caste since birth, due to which he becomes so self-absorbed in his devotion to his caste that he forgets all the dignity of humanity, and This class becomes the class of the exploiter while the exploited class wants to remain suppressed forever by living their life with their assigned work.
Inter-caste marriage: - In any community, this tradition should not be married outside its group, it gives more strength to casteism. Because of this, there is not only contraction at the social level, but the gene pool of any caste also remains limited and there is no diversity in genes.
Urbanization :- Due to lack of employment in the villages, a lot of population started settling in the cities, but due to caste diversity, living and communication became difficult there. Such casteism got further strengthened, and people who belonged to different villages started living together because of being of the same caste.
Social Distance:- Those castes who considered themselves better than others started keeping distance from other castes, due to which untouchability and social inequality started increasing and casteism started to prevail not only in these castes but also in that class which was affected by this inequality. Was getting hunted.
Illiteracy and lack of opportunities :- The castes which gained power went on getting educated but those who had lack of resources were also tortured by the upper castes, they also started understanding the importance of their caste and casteism.
Consequences of Casteism
Casteism is based on inequality and injustice. It would be wrong to call casteism a part of the system, in fact it is the demon that is swallowing the society. Because of this democracy has also become a joke. of now In India, there is a strong possibility of hatred in the society of every caste, in which it is very common for one caste to humiliate another caste or to look at it with respect and because of this, distances are seen in both the societies. And if we look at the social level, due to the casteist ideology, the cases of honor-killing have also started increasing, in which the couple is killed for marrying outside the caste and if it survives, then that family has to face social scorn. Are. In this way, it can be said that casteism is the feeling of one-sided dedication of a person towards his caste, which can take any sacrifice from him.
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