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Outline the significant features of the Caste system, and Comment on the criticisms made on the Caste system.
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A) Outline the significant features of the Caste system (14) B) Comment on the criticisms made on the Caste system (6) The caste system, or caturvarna, as K.K.Klostermaier describes is "religious hierarchy; when people are born into their respective castes on account of the karma that they had accumulated in previous lives."1 It is a key feature of life in India and has been for hundreds of years, if not thousands of years, and for just as long it is has been a controversial system (Criticisms coming from Ghandi in 1947 and the Bhakti movement in the middle ages.) The Caste system is a relatively simple idea on the surface, but when one delves more deeply the idea becomes more and more complex. It is a system that reflects one of the more profound ideas in Hinduism: the attainment of Moksha and atonement with Brahman. In order to understand the key features of...
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