The Caste System In Hinduism

If you ask any Hindu how the caste system started they would lead you to the Brahma who was the four-headed, four-handed deity and worshipped as the creator of the universe. But The origin of the Indian caste system has many theories behind it. Some of them are religious, while others are biological. The religious theories explain that according to the Rig Veda, which is the ancient Hindu book, the primal man, Purush, destroyed himself to create a human society.

The Caste system is a basic social structure, the top of the list is the Brahmans, Brahmans are made up of priests and scholars of Vedic literature, and is the most appreciated cast. Next on the list is Kshatriyas, the Kshatriyas are the warrior and served for ruler and royal families and they rank right below Brahmans. Next there are the Vaishyas, The main jobs that Vaishyas were: Being Traders, Cattle Farmers, Minor officials, and Merchants, and owned businesses, and had farm land these are regular/average people in the caste system. After that we have the Sudras, the main jobs the Sudras do are: Being workers, Servant, and Self Farmers these are the bottom of the caste system. And Last you have the

Dalits, the only jobs this caste does are pretty bad and nasty but they are: Sweeping the Streets, and cleaning toilets by hand. This caste is so low it is even not on most lists.

Some advantages I think the cast system has is that it keeps a balance of power of who can do what, It also helps society stay organized socially.

And if the Caste system would be gone there would be lots of social instability and things would go wrong.

But in my opinion the downsides to the cast system are worse than the advantages, One of the problem is how long it has been around, sure back in ancient India it makes sense because some of those jobs were reasonable but people should have moved on by now but there is an estimated 250 million people affected by the cast system, that's a lot of people. The other problem is how it would impact India, see if there is a limited amount of people that are scholar or are smart then there is limited people that could help India become a more powerful

country

An alternative I would suggest is that the social structure would be divided things like: what housing can you afford, and how much money you make, and people would be able to get any kind of job regardless of anything and they can have that job only if they try.