The Varna system wasn’t about birth—it was about function. It was a framework, not a fate. But like most things in history, what we know is often far from the reality.

We cannot talk about Hinduism without caste. When we say caste, we are using a European word. The local words are jati and varna. Jati refers to a community, and varna refers to a classification ...

Now we have a neo-varna system: General Category (GC), Other Backward Communities (OBC), Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). Earlier everyone wanted to be the higher varna, the dvija ...

The varna system initially served to classify individuals on the basis of their attributes and aptitude. However, with time, it evolved into the caste system where a person’s occupation and ...

Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], October 8 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday said that everyone thinking in the interest of society should tell that the 'Varna ...

Gotra tells about your lineage. Caste, religion, Gotra, Varna, all these things have been created by human beings, and each and everything was created for some special purpose, all these things ...

Varna & caste are ingrained in the Indian psyche We all seem to be living with labels of different sorts, caste being the most prominent. People are divided and subdivided into castes and sub-castes.

A caste system often uses discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. ... Each varna has a line of work associated with it and they're handed down through family lines.

Not just a believer, but one from the top three varnas—the ‘janeu-dhaari’ remark evokes in an inverted way how Hindu religious places treat others ...

Yet an often cited report on caste bias released in 2018 by Equality Labs, a Dalit civil rights organization and a co-sponsor of the California bill, found that two-thirds of respondents said they ...