Indian Cast System

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Submitted by johtej7 on May 11, 2008

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Indian Cast System

The Indian caste system has been in use for many years.  Still today the values of the caste system are held strongly.  It has kept a sense of order, and peace among the people. They all have their own place among each other and accept that it is the way to keep society from disintegrating to confusion.  This system has worked well for Indian people and still has a major role in modern India.

In ancient India there developed a social system in which people were divided into separate close communities. There are five different levels of the system: Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra, and Harijans. But socially the caste system was more complicated, with much...

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