Is India's caste system a crime against humanity?

Caste is divisive and belongs to an age where respect for everybody irrespective of their religion, birth and sex was not accepted as totality. Today hanging on to such outdated concepts is ridiculous.

Brahmana, Kshatriya and Vaishya, Shudra are the only four categories according to our vedas. In the number game politics Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishyas  have lost their relevance because they are less in numbers, and who cares for them.

Whereas the term Shudras which was not clearly been defined comprises 90% of the total population. In the name of backwardness these 90% were given certain facilities with an intention to bring them up. These facilities are now became the birth right of these categories. They are reluctant to make their effort but claims for share and looks at the Govt. for help. Merit has been cornered and the numbers making the show.

Certain caste and community people are deliberately making their efforts to increase their numbers and contributing for population explosion. Govt's policies are encouraging this tendency. Caste system tangled with number game democracy. No solution in the near future. Our contribution to the world will be  only to the population figures in the near future, if we continue this tendency.

Caste systems can be there provided there are no rankings in that higher.. lower.. Come on dears we are Homosapiens. We created castes for people administration and identification in early days. Now its outdated. Its inhumane to classify a baby/ human by birth..

Caste system is the biggest mistake of modern world

equality has to be the motto

treat every human equally

but this will be done only if our bleady gov takes interest

but those buggers r not at all interesteed

Caste is the same five letter word as Crime. And most importantly it is absolutely not required in the world that we are living in. It does nothing but divides us, seperates us, alienates us to our own countrymen and kills patriotism. All that we need to really be supporive of is our country NOTHING ELSE. CASTE IS A CRIME. It is the biggest crime our country has generated through all of our history. There cannot be a better time to get rid of the caste system in this country. A layman today has a lot of problems in his life, let us not allow the caste system to add to his pains and pressures. Already this country has had a past history of severe communal riots which were primely based on the religious differences. Lets try and come out of it first. Allowing a caste system would mean that we are creating more and more problems for ourselves. We are all humans and lets recognize and follow humanity first and that would be a huge responsibility for this lifetime.

yes...in initial phase it is good but now a dayz it is missused by people. Its all about dirty politics done by our politicians to attract vote in their favour. Every citizen of india must have equal rights to educate, job or any thing. If india will become reservation free country then only we can dream about to become a super power. Jai Hind

We will never be a super power that we aspire to be unless we drop the cast discrimination. castsim is simply slapping iron on mother India feet  delay her over all development. I hope day is not far when if at all there is a reservation it is based on the individuals economic condition and not on his birth and all treated equally

India is a secular country, but any one can feel cast system in our country.cast system decrement to the society.It creates grate distance between the people.cast system is a miserable think for our society. cast system is a grate obstacle for our economy.so it should be withdraw as quick as possible. 

Guys lets talk about it clearly, are we talking about the incemption of cast system or its repurcursions on our society,very nicely Sarika is able to describe conception of caste system, but i think issue is not that, issue is, the sufferings of people of so called lower strata are facing, is gruesome.... where it has come from.... The cast system,  Even today in india untouchability is there, people of lower cast are not allowed to enter in the temples, people do not prefer to drink water in the house of lower caste, they are not willing to marriyng their children in their houses, even those are left suffering due to their cast.... more over no higher cast wishes to get them involved in their functions and celebrations as well....... and where has it come from..... from the cast system of India.......... and yes discimination amongst people based on their cast is a crime...... though i am from a so called higher cast...

The so-called 'Varnashrama Dharma' - in its grossly misunderstood form - did exist since the age of Thretha Yuga (Rama's Times).

Lord Krishna in "Bhagavadgita" gives a firm clarification on it:"CHATURVARNAM MAYA SRISHTAM GUNA KARMA VIBHAGASHAHA" which means "I created the 4 varnas based on their individual characteristics.

Which means that the caste is not inherited but is acquired based on ones charecter.  Despite this, the rampant practice of inherited caste system deeply rooted in our Society, which is the scourge of the Modern Day Expectations.

The sole reason why it still exists, is as many do speak against it but rarely walk-the-talk, in their real-life.

I do not know for sure it is crime or help or else but what science & history refers, human beings are just another species of this mother earth & as homo sapiens (with god gifted wisdom), we have divided ourselves as countries, borders, casts, creed, colour, cults, religions etc etc.

Having said that monkeys are our ancestors; god knows our current division holds true or not!

Sarika, you seem very knowledgeable about the Vedic Scriptures and practices, so i will not mention anything in that regard. But here is something to consider. When the concept of dowry was introduced in India, it was originally intended for ensuring that the newly wed would be able to live a happy life by ensuring that both families gave whatever best they could to them. Today it is a completely misconstrued and misused concept in order to harass the girl's family and the bride. Should we then continue to allow dowry? Or should fight it tooth and nail and make sure that nobody tries to take advantage of this now misused concept which once was started with very noble intentions??? I believe its all our responsibility to do the latter.

In the same way, we need to work towards the eradication of the caste system in India which is no longer useful to us in anyway. Its time we stopped following tradition blindly!

Mangesh, Sarika, you both are agreeing that the whole system is not what it was when initially brought in. That being said, why in the world should we continue following something which is not bringing anything worthwhile to society today? All in the name of following tradition?

I would rather we let go of this practise which no longer helps us in any way. Rather we need to see how to manage the damage it has done to society today.

India's caste system indeed is a very big crime against humanity. It discriminates people and creates distance among them. The system of considering people according to higher or lower caste is weakening our society. Majority of conversions are taking place only because of this