India Draw and Label There are 5 different levels in the India Caste system Label them where you think they should go Here are the different titles Priest unskilled laborers rulerswarriors ID: 591209
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Caste System
IndiaSlide2
Draw and Label
There are 5 different levels in the India Caste system. Label them where you think they
should go. Here are the different titles: Priest, unskilled laborers, rulers/warriors,
Untouchables, and skilled workers/merchants.
Why did you put them where you did? Rationale
?
What about the social hierarchy of the USA? How does our pyramid look? Labels?Slide3
Actual ModelSlide4
Caste Info
More than 3000 caste, with 25,000
subcaste
Caste word is derived from Spanish or Portuguese “
casta
” meaning: Race, breed, or lineage
Caste determines and dictates occupation, dietary habits, and interaction with other casteSlide5
Basic Idea
People in India are born, marry, and die in their caste.
There is no social mobility.
Ideas are constructed around their religious ideas of reincarnation and karma. Your previous life actions have determined your place in society.Slide6
Religious Beginnings
In the Rig Veda:
Purush
, or primal man, had destroyed himself to create human society.
Different parts of his body became the different caste: Priest (head), Warriors (hands), Landowners (legs), laborers (feet)Slide7
Historical Beginnings
Aryans, fair skinned invaders, from the north came into India and took over many parts of society around 1500BCE
The Aryans developed the early caste into 3 parts based on top priest, middle warriors, and bottom laborers.
Laborers were dark skinned and were the indigenous people.
Caste later fully developed into deeper and more concrete Slide8
Caste System Today
In the 1960s a series of laws were passed that began to make it illegal to discriminate certain caste
Due to western education, media, telecommunications, and outside influence has helped break down the caste system
However, many things are still done by people because it has been in their culture for some many generationSlide9
Untouchables
Lowest category
Jobs that involved “polluting activities”
Examples: ending a life such as fishing, killing or disposing of cattle, contact with human emissions of sweat, urine, feces (
washermen
and sewers and street sweepers)
People who eat meat
These people must sleep during day and work at night to avoid contact with people