Jajmani System: Definitions: 1. Harold Gould: Inter familial‚ inter caste relationship with patterning of superordinate‚ subordinate relations between patrons and supplier of services 2. Yogendra singh: Based on reciprocity in inter caste relations in villages 3. Ishwaran: System where each caste has a role to play Features: 1. Between families‚ not whole caste 2. One to one or many to one (village watchman‚ Orenstein) 3. Not all relations between jajman‚ kamin contractual. Some are paid
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generation of Indians who were perhaps not so well exposed to world culture". So‚ the talented group formed as nationalists’ and insecure
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decided to implement the 27% reservation for OBC’s in institutions of higher learning like IIT’s‚ IIM’s AIIMS etc. And this is what that has created a great stir among the students‚ medical doctors and public in general. Boon Or Bane Boon The system of reservation is a unique one which is definitely needed in a society like ours in which contain sections of the society have been depressed for ages. Such societies may not be in the same state of depression presently‚ but they cannot compete with
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Special Provisions of the CONSTITUTION OF INDIA for Scheduled Castes‚ Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes ARTICLE 15: Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion‚ race‚ caste‚ sex or place of birth— (1) The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion‚ race‚ caste‚ sex‚ place of birth or any of them‚ . (2) No citizen shall‚ on grounds only of religion‚ race‚ caste‚ sex‚ place of birth or any of them‚ be subject to any disability‚ liability
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The Second Backward Classes Commission (Mandal Commission) By an Order made by the President of India‚ in the year 1979‚ under Article 340 of the Constitution‚ a Backward Class Commission was appointed to investigate the conditions of socially and educationally backward classes within the territory of India‚ which Commission is popularly known as Mandal Commission. The terms of reference of the Commission were: "The terms of reference of the Commission were:-- (i) to determine the criteria for
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While the Indian Caste system and Contemporary society differ in many aspects‚ they however have similarities such as their class system and their written laws. India divides their people into a caste system called the Varna whereas contemporary society has a socioeconomic system. Each system has categories that their natives fall into and live according to their economic standing. Along with the class system‚ each society has similar written laws that guarantee equal rights amongst all people.
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THE BADI: PROSTITUTION AS A SOCIAL NORM AMONG AN UNTOUCHABLE CASTE OF WEST NEPAL THOMAS COX Introduction Badi are an untouchable Hindu caste‚ with a total population of approximately 7‚000‚ who inhabit scattered settlements in the Salyan‚ Rolpa‚ Rukum‚ Dailekh‚ Seti‚ Jajarkot‚ Dang-Dekhuri‚ Banke and Bardiya Districts of west Nepal. Bali men fish (keeping most of the catch for their own family’s consumption) and make drums and pipes‚ which they sell to Nepalese in neighboring communities. Badi
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History of the Indian caste system From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Indian society has consisted of thousands of endogamous clans and groups called jatis since ancient times. The Brahminical scriptures and texts tried to bring this diversity under a comprehensible scheme which hypothesised four idealised meta groups called varna. The first mention of the formal varna Indian caste system is in the famous Purusha Sukta of the Rigveda‚ although it is the only mention
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intervention. Class and caste discrimination in India is as old as the Himalayas. The enormity of human degradation‚ inequality‚ discrimination and untouchability is beyond comprehension and is enforced by scriptures which are held and hailed as sacred. Violation of scriptural ordinance is blasphemous and therefore unimaginable. It all started with the advent of the Aryans and the writing of the Vedas. The caste system has been there in India since then but it was merely a class system on the basis of division
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nation. Thus a distinct economic class system exists within the backward classes. Mostly undeserving people have gained the advantages and the deserving ones are still without any significant positive change in their plight. It is interesting to note that the constitutional provisions regarding reservations which explicitly single out certain castes for special preferential treatment contradicts the documents prohibition on discrimination based on caste‚ race and other such other criteria. Besides
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