MODERN TRENDS OF CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA

 

MODERN TRENDS OF CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA 

Caste system is a rigid system But is is not

possible to maintain an absolute caste system. In India the system was never perfect kind before the Muslims or the British there were factors in India that worked against the system In fact, a system which lays emphasis on the ideal of absolute social inequality is inherently contradictory.

 It is not only internally inconsestent but also incompatible with societal needs. To be

practicable, the ideal would require a static social order. But society is never static. The external contitious in which the society lives and to which it must adjust if is to survive are constantly changing social change requires social adaptation. The social system must adjust to be changing conditions, and such adjustment inevitably leads to a certain amount of social mobility and the consequent contravening of the

principle of absolute fixity of status.

In ancient India, absolute rigidity was never maintained. Here and there flexibility was visible e.g., Bisvamitra the chaplain of Sudasa, and the famous rival of vishisths, according tradition was a kshatriya. In modern time this rigid element of caste system has undergone further changes and looking at events one can confidently say that rigid distinctions are watering down. The various factors that have brought about these changes in caste system may be now described.