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	Publisher: Shubhi Publications, Gurgaon
	Author J.H. Hutton
	Language: English
	Pages: 319
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	9x6 inch
	Weight 570 gm
	Edition: 2025
	ISBN: 9788182902565
	HBQ897

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About the Book The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term jati appears in almost all Indian languages and is related to the idea of lineage or kinship group. There are perhaps more than 3000 jatis in India and there is no one all-Indian system of ranking them in order of status. Yet in each local area jati ranking exists and is very much related to purity and pollution. Each jati has some unique job, but not everyone in the jati performs it. Thus there are barbers who do not shave, carpenters who do not build, and Brahmins who do not act as priests. A jati is identified in a local setting by whom its members will accept food and water from and to which jatis its members will give food and water.

People will try to marry their sons and daughters to members of their same jati and will give their major loyalty to their jati. A jati will usually be organized into a biradari (a brotherhood), and this organization carries out the business and oversees the working of the jati and has the power to exclude an offender from the jati.

Preface MUCH has happened in India since Caste in India was first published. The arrival of independence and a purely Indian government has made possible legislation which would have been improper even had it been possible to an alien administration, and the leaders of thought and policy in India seem generally to have come to the decision that the caste system must go. If that be indeed the case it is perhaps partly on the ground that the caste system is a hindrance to industrial development and economic advance, but more particularly under the urge of an altruistic and humanitarian desire for an improvement in the condition of the depressed classes, and a feeling that the caste system is bound up with the untouchability of the exterior castes and is discreditable therefore to a modern society. Legis-lation then has been undertaken in an attempt to deal with this situation.

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