Assess The Impact Of Caste System In Today's Society

After reading the Karukku, I believe that the way the people are treated has a bigger impact than being poor. I believe that being a Dalit had a bigger impact than those who didn’t own any means of production. In today’s society the caste system is wrongly used, back in the day of kings and queens it was used to differentiate people based on their profession. Today it is used to divide people and that was never its attended use. Many people believed the caste system was a form of Ideology, belief system that make people think inequality seems natural. For example, they believed that if they were poor it was because of something they did in the past, also they thought it was why they don’t have any wealth or power. Religion, acts as a form of

The lower caste members really suffer not only from threats from the higher caste members but hard labor, no food, shelter, or money. In a caste system, you are born into your family’s caste you don’t have the rights to choose want you want. You work at the caste occupation, endogamous, marry within the caste, and follow all the caste rules; however, a caste system can raise its status as a whole. Each caste system is ranked in a higher or lower ranking class, the ones at the top are believed to be purer. In the book Karukku, “Will Harijan students please stand; the government has arranged that Scheduled Caste students should get special tuition in the evenings.” (Bama, 21-22) Being in a higher ranking class doesn’t mean you will be wealthy. The ones that own the means of production are the ones said to do well. “Someone who is member of the potter caste might perhaps run a large pottery business and do quite well financially” (Buck, 147) In other words, being an untouchable or Brahman doesn’t necessarily decide whether you are wealthy or

Those people had to live apart from the other caste and were given the jobs no one else wanted to do. “However, the lowest castes, the Dalit’s who cleaned streets and latrines, did work that was considered so polluting that they were not supposed to touch members of the higher castes” (Buck, 149) They came to be thought of as the untouchable because people believed that their touch would effect a Brahman’s purity, and prestige. On the other hand, in a class system an individual is based upon what you have achieved. You can chose who you marry, and where you want to work. “Your employer does not own you, you can’t be bought or sold, and after you leave each day your ability to work belongs to you again” (Buck, 151) There are two types of class systems, privately owned production and capitalism which makes it possible to buy and sell. People who have much larger amounts of production use labor intensive, requires more hours of work than others, which requires labor such as huge factoring. In a class system you earn your position, deciding whether you have wealth and