CASTE SYSTEM: ATTRACT BY INDIAN CONSTITUTION

 

CASTE SYSTEM: ATTRACT BY INDIAN CONSTITUTION

The most systematic and severe attack on the caste system to has been recently made by the constitution of India. Its very preamble solemnly asserts that the people of India have constituted themselves into a sovereign democratic republic, which is named. "India, that is Bharat". The aim to secure to all its citizens justice, social economic and political liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; equality of status and opportunity and to promote among them all fraternity assuring the dignity of the individual. 

Equality, thus guaranteed, is not only of opportunity but also of status. The citizens of India have avowed that the purpose of their political association is to guarantee every citizen not only equality of opportunity, not only absence of unequal treatment in social and economic matters but also to bring about a state of affairs in which differences, of status for individuals can exist only in a classless society and

not even in a casteless one. 

In guaranteeing the right of equality of the

Indian constitution reads :

(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, restriction or condition with regard to. 

(a) Access to shops, public restaurants, has hotels and places of public entertainment.

(b) The use of wells., tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or partly out of state funds or dedicated to the use of the general

public.

Guarantees equality of appointment to any office under the state irrespective of religion, race, caste, sex descent, place of birth, residence or any of them.

Untouchability and its practice in any from as there by forbidden. The right of freedom guarantees, among other things, that of practice of any lawful calling without

restriction. 

The constitution may I thus be said to have

abolished caste and its lingering coercive practices, it is a solemn promise that the legislature will do everything possible to create a society in which inequality of status does not exist.