Social stratification otherwise caste is a way that society is graded and classified the people in a hierarchical way. Following main factors are involved in social stratification caste, class, sex, and ethnic background. Sociologists says that social stratification is a normal scenario in each society. There are various kinds of social stratification systems all around the world. The class systems are based on individual achievement and social mobility is the foundation of the class system. Caste is the system of distribute labor and power in society. All societies have sustained its stratification in numerous forms so the stratification is recognized as usual one in all humanities.
When the western countries began to trade widely in South Asia, they noticed a major difference among South Asian societies and societies on other parts of world. In India and Sri Lanka people are divided into massive amount of clusters who do not intermarry within separate caste, those are rated in relation to each other, and whose interactions are governed by a numerous customary behavioral actions.
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At events such as the Kandy Perahera still the traditional duties are perform by relevant people from relevant castes. In up country some traditions of the Kandian kingdom survived even after its downfall in 1818, conserved in exceptional forms of the caste system until the post-independence period.. Also marriages among members of these families and common Goyigama were rare. The Goyigama caste in the upcountry differs from those of the low country because they have divisions within the caste that originate from the official ranking of noble and commoner families in the old kandian kingdom. The most significant feature of the ancient system of work was rajakariya, or the “king’s work,” which related each caste to a particular livelihood or profession and demanded services for the court and religious