To be born a Hindu in India is to enter the caste system, one of the world's longest surviving forms ofsocial stratification.Embeddedin Indian culture for the past 1,500 years, the caste system follows a basic precept: All men are created unequal. People are divided into different classes.NO one allows changing their position. The ranks in Hindu society come from a legend in which the main groupings, orvarnas, emerge from aprimordialbeing. From the mouth come the Brahmans—the priests and teachers. From the arms come the Kshatriyas—the rulers and soldiers. From the thighs come the Vaisyas—merchantsand traders. From the feet come the Sudras—laborers. Each varna in turn contains hundreds ofhereditarycastes and subcastes with theirpeckingorders. A fifth group describes the acute people,!Sensitive. or untouchable. The primordial being does not claim them. Untouchables are outcasts-people considered too impure, too polluted, to rank as worthy beings,!They are rejected from worshiping in a higher hierarchy temple. Prejudice defines their lives, particularly in the rural areas, where nearly three-quarters of India's people live. Untouchables are shunned, insulted, banned from temples and higher caste homes, made to eat and drink from separate utensils in public places, and, in extreme but not uncommon cases, are raped, burned, lynched, and gunned down. They can be beaten to death but still not charged for the crime. The ancient belief system that created the Untouchables overpowers modern law. While India's constitution forbids caste discrimination and specifically abolishes Untouchability, Hinduism, the religion of 80 percent of India's population, governs daily life with its hierarchies and rigid social codes. Under its strictures, an Untouchable parent gives birth to an Untouchable child, condemned as unclean from the first breath.1. write a summary of this article.2. what question do you have about this article.

To be born a Hindu in India is to enter the caste system, one of the world's longest surviving forms of social stratification . Embedded in Indian culture for the past 1,500 years, the caste system...

To be born a Hindu in India is to enter the caste system, one of the world's longest surviving forms ofsocial stratification.Embeddedin Indian culture for the past 1,500 years, the caste system follows a basic precept: All men are created unequal. People are divided into different classes.NO one allows changing their position. The ranks in Hindu society come from a legend in which the main groupings, orvarnas, emerge from aprimordialbeing. From the mouth come the Brahmans—the priests and teachers. From the arms come the Kshatriyas—the rulers and soldiers. From the thighs come the Vaisyas—merchantsand traders. From the feet come the Sudras—laborers. Each varna in turn contains hundreds ofhereditarycastes and subcastes with theirpeckingorders.

A fifth group describes the acute people,!Sensitive. or untouchable. The primordial being does not claim them. Untouchables are outcasts-people considered too impure, too polluted, to rank as worthy beings,!They are rejected from worshiping in a higher hierarchy temple. Prejudice defines their lives, particularly in the rural areas, where nearly three-quarters of India's people live. Untouchables are shunned, insulted, banned from temples and higher caste homes, made to eat and drink from separate utensils in public places, and, in extreme but not uncommon cases, are raped, burned, lynched, and gunned down. They can be beaten to death but still not charged for the crime. The ancient belief system that created the Untouchables overpowers modern law. While India's constitution forbids caste discrimination and specifically abolishes Untouchability, Hinduism, the religion of 80 percent of India's population, governs daily life with its hierarchies and rigid social codes. Under its strictures, an Untouchable parent gives birth to an Untouchable child, condemned as unclean from the first breath.

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Jun 01, 2022