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Peter Jackson, a professor of Medieval History and Muslim India, writes that the speculative hypotheses about the caste system in Hindu states during the medieval Delhi Sultanate period (~1200 to 1500), and the existence of a caste system, as being responsible for Hindu weakness in resisting the plunder by Islamic armies, is appealing at first ...
3 dni temu · India - Caste System, Social Hierarchy, Diversity: In South Asia the caste system has been a dominating aspect of social organization for thousands of years. A caste, generally designated by the term jati (“birth”), refers to a strictly regulated social community into which one is born.
caste system are: segmental division of society, hierarchy of groups, restriction of feed- ing and social intercourse, allied and religious disabilities and privileges of the different sections, lack of unrestricted choice of occupation, and restriction on marriage.
Both sociological and historical studies of society in the Indian sub-continent are plagued by the seeming uniqueness of the Hindu caste system and by the apparently unmanageable amount of variety within it. The caste system of India and Pakistan, taken as a whole in the world context, is no
This chapter will apply these ideas to the modern history of India, in two phases. First, it will show how hierarchical ideas were important in pre-colonial India, though often less rigid in form than they became later.
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16 paź 2023 · Caste hierarchy is fundamental to social and political life in India. There has been much debate over whether a statement such as this falls prey to an essentialist portrayal of a society believed to be mired in ‘tradition’.
