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THE CASTE SYSTEM * OVERVIEW

1. Click on BBC HINDUISM . Make some notes on the Caste system.

2. TEST your understanding: are these statements "True" or "False"?

1. The Hindu society is based on a social hierarchy of four “varnas”, large caste categories.
True      False
 
2. All men are considered equal.
True      False
 
3. The caste system (jati) ranks people according to occupation.
True     False
 
4. The Shudras are at the top of the social pyramid.
True      False

 

5. Those too lowly to be within the varna system are known as the untouchables.
True      False

 
6. The caste system is based on the belief that hierarchy and purity are essential to society.
True     False
 
7. Members of the upper castes regard the lowest castes as being ritually unclean.
True      False
 
8. Today, caste barriers have largely broken down.
True      False
 
9. "Untouchability" has never been abolished.
True      False
 


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