Bihar, Caste Divisions & India in 21st Century

[rubyjackass]

When a great wall is torn down then it's traces remain for a few years, and they vanish from the ground and everyone's memory.
I hope you got the gist of it.

You are not asking for a wall to be taken down. By simply asking to eliminate reservations with no mitigation measures for equity in society, you are asking for traffic lanes to be erased. Some people are going to get trampled. And its the same people who keep getting trampled over generations, for no fault of theirs.

Simply erasing something from memory won't help if the consequences stare at our face everyday.

So Kill it!!!

Caste system and its horrors can be killed. But caste cannot be. People will retain their markers somehow. So the way to kill caste system is not to make people forget their caste. You cannot make them forget it.

Did you forget that your PM is a Dalit???

Modi is not a Dalit. He comes from a caste which is classified as OBC.

 

[skyisthelimit]

It is too difficult to answer.

1. Reform education system, educate every child starting day 1, on importance and equality of human beings.
2. Reservations on basis of economic situation.
3. Subsidy benefits on basis of economic situation.
4. Ensure fast justice, unbiased rulings in courts when a Dalit or Hindu or Muslim is discriminated for any constitutional violations. Put heavy fines too.

Point 1, I believe is more important. It will surely benefit our future generation.

 

[rcrmj]

You live in a country which is the size of Bangalore International Airport. Large countries have more complex problems.

but problems of 21st century's, not this barbaric medieval thing, its disgusting !

 

[Star Wars]

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[Guynextdoor2]

but problems of 21st century's, not this barbaric medieval thing, its disgusting !

A system that excisted for 2500 years and protected by the British during their rule does not vanish in one night. Fact is that India tiday has taken HUGE strides. If you read V S Naipual's works you'll find that as early as 1960s Brahmins would cook their own food to avoid 'pollution' in Delhi. Today you don't find that anywhere there. Caste continues to be exist but at a markedly reduced (but notable level) in rural areas. But there also it is breaking.

To a great extent 'break' is because of democracy. Lower caste leaders who were denied any kind of power for 2500 years have become CMs of the biggest state in the country. Sure some of them didn't deliver on development but their symbolic achievement have changed the power structure for good.

Give it another 30 years. It's on it's way out for good.

 

[Levina]

People will retain their markers somehow

You're assuming too many things.
Infact you're being a pessimist.
Whatever you said is applicable to generations before our's, but not us, this so because most of them of the current generation do not believe in caste system at all- there are more inter caste marriages happening today than say a decade back. The lines of castes are blurring and am sanguine about it.
This is the right time to pull this weed out before it drops its roots again.