CASTE:
an integral part of HINDU religion and Hindu society. The word "caste"
is normally used to refer to what in India is called Jti, the social status, which is
one's inheritance at birth. In Vedic times there were four castes: BRHMAA
(priests),KATRIYAS (warriors), VAIYA (merchants) and DRAS (farmers and manual workers).
Members of the first three castes were called the "twice-born" and were
identified largely on the basis of their color. Over time the caste system developed into
a complex web of thousands of castes which embrace the whole of INDIAN SOCIETY in an
apartheid like web.
