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Short Essay on various Caste Groups in India. The caste system is the main characteristic of Hindu society. It is generally believed that caste system in India originated in an effort by cattle rearing fair skined immigrants to include the dark skined Palaeo- Mediterranean and Proto-Australoids into a composite social organisation. Image Source: yourarticlelibrary.com […]

A caste system is a social system where people are ranked into groups based on heredity within rigid systems of social stratification, especially those that constitute Hindu India. Some scholars, in fact, deny that true caste systems are found outside India. […]