Religious Roots of Caste and Untouchability: Social Perspective

Abstract

In general, Caste is defined as a rigid social system in which social hierarchy is maintained historically, generation after generation and it did not allow any mobility out of the space, in which a person is born. The major reason that are believed to explain casteism was the religion based ideology developed by Brahmin harking on the laws of Manu and the creation of Hymn of the Rig Veda, Puranic myths and epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata. These epics came to be known as the Varna theory. Varna India came about when the Aryan speaking nomadic group migrated from the north to India about 15 B.C. The Aryan pries divided. Society into a caste system for four parts. Between 20 B.C. and 100 A.D. the Manusmriti, or Law of Manu was written. The Aryan priest-law makers created in its four hereditary division of society, putting their own priestly class Brahmin at the head this caste system with the title of earthly gods, or (Brahmans, pries and teachers).

In general, Caste is defined as a rigid social system in which social hierarchy is maintained historically, generation after generation and it did not allow any mobility out of the space, in which a person is born. The major reason that are believed to explain casteism was the religion based ideology developed by Brahmin harking on the laws of Manu and the creation of Hymn of the Rig Veda, Puranic myths and epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata. These epics came to be known as the Varna theory. Varna India came about when the Aryan speaking nomadic group migrated from the north to India about 15 B.C. The Aryan pries divided. Society into a caste system for four parts. Between 20 B.C. and 100 A.D. the Manusmriti, or Law of Manu was written. The Aryan priest-law makers created in its four hereditary division of society, putting their own priestly class Brahmin at the head this caste system with the title of earthly gods, or (Brahmans, pries and teachers).