Advantages And Disadvantages Of Meritocracy

This group of activists, advocates, donors, lawyers, students, academics, politicians and ordinary citizens have developed an awareness of untouchability as an issue of civil and human rights law. This group of people have brought a major change in our society over the last few years and the caste system has been removed from many places because of which there has been a dramatic change in the viewpoint of society. Instead of treating a particular caste group differently, people have taken a new approach to understand each other and adopt a society where there is

“I am well aware, that I speak of a country containing congeries of races, religions and languages, and I know well the difficulties thereby created but these difficulties can only be overcome by the Indians. We are mindful of the rights of the minority. On the other hand, we cannot allow a minority to place a veto on the advance of majority”

The Caste system has aroused much controversy than any other feature of India’s society. Every day, Dalits are butchered, assaulted, abused, raped, lynched, shot or openly mutilated without considering any consequences of the offenders. The deaths of pregnant women who are not able to pay the bribes at government hospitals, some boys with eyes raised completely out for falling in love with a girl of a superior caste, and horrid stories of employees boiled to death because of spewing out arguments with the boss are continuously reported in mainstream newspapers. After years of democracy, the social structure stands to practice the caste system disregarding abolishment laws. Every international or national effort to abolish caste differentiation and segregation has been proven ineffective. The caste system of India is a deeply inculcated social problem requiring immense commitment domestically and internationally in understanding what has stopped the measures to get rid of this ancient system and what measures are needed to complete elimination of the system.

The caste system has been extremely stable in India for over two thousand years. It is only since the more modern, independent state of India was formed that the system has come under any scrutiny at all. It is presently outlawed, but many of the practices, attitudes and traditions remain ingrained in Hindu society (University of Wyoming, 1997).

Life on a reservation in present day is extremely difficult. Broken promises from the Government lead many young Indian

The gatherings of people in this article are the person who needs to think about Indian reservation. The creator's motivation is to illuminate to the crowd about how they are living on a blend of sporadic paychecks, dread, and trust and government surplus sustenance. The writer clarified his focuses well in the article and his tone was aware in light of the fact that he made an effort not to annoy the gathering of the general population who are as yet living on the reservation.

Firstly, the caste system reflects the inequality of Indian society. Although religion in India is characterized by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices, majority of Indian population follow Hinduism. Therefore, the dominance of Hinduism beliefs is common in India. There is a belief in caste system, as Brood said, “a system of hierarchical social organization”1. Hindu society is divided into four main classes; the priestly class, the warrior and administrator class, the producer class who is farmers and merchants and the servant class. The remaining group of people who is “outcastes” is called “untouchables” or dalit. Brodd recognizes “dalits continue to suffer terrible oppression, especially in rural communities in India”. I still could not imagine how terrible this bottom class suffers until reading Max Bearak article. All sufferings of Rohith Vemula, from the hardships of growing up poor, interactions with society in caste to scholarship revoke and suicide, happened tragically because he was born in a dalit family. This is the

Looking upon Indian society for comparison, it is seen that the primary factor of the caste system is built

“But we reservation Indians don't get to realize our dreams. We don't get these chances. Or choices. We're just poor. That's all we are.” (Pg.13)

Untouchability as claimed by the Indian government is said to be abandoned 60 years ago, however still 40% of Dalits are illiterate (Around 70 million). This tells us that the caste system unfortunately still exists. The caste system is a system of class and hierarchy, it divides people in terms of classes called castes which usually determines their status in the community and therefor their livelihoods. The caste system still exists and if not constitutionally definitely socially. The caste system presence keeps different communities separated, lowers national GDP (Economic activity/development), discriminates against those of the lower caste, slows the development procedure and creates unlimited social consequences.

Mallick, who had opposed the reservation seats for people belonging to different castes, JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru Institute), in 2010, said, “Some castes are genetically malnourished and so very little can be achieved in raising them up.”

A few disadvantages of India’s social system are that Religion, caste, and language are major determinants of social organizations. According to the US Department of State-Background Notes website, even though the government has declared the caste system as illegal, it still has a presence in occupational and societal hierarchies (The Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs, 2010).

In addition, the “quota system” applied in education and employment discriminates against Indians because it entirely favors Malays (Mihlar, para. 9). Malaysian public service led by “the civil services,” the judiciary and the police has fewer Malaysian Indians (Mihlar, para10). Places in “residential schools” are a preserve of the students from the Malays ethnicity (Mihlar, para.

India is a South Asian country where people hold various castes and religions. After India gained independence, the Constitution of India listed backward castes of the people as Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). The Constitution laid down 15% and 7.5% of vacancies to government aided educational institutes and for jobs in the government/public sector, as reserved quota for the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes candidates respectively for a period of five years, after which the situation was to be reviewed. Reservation, in Indian law is a form of affirmative action whereby a percentage of seats are reserved in the public sector units, union and state civil services, union and state government departments and in all public and private educational institutions, except in the religious or linguistic minority educational institutions, for the socially and educationally backward communities and the Scheduled Castes and Tribes. The common refrain tends to be that less qualified people from backward castes in the field of education and employment get preferential treatment because of caste based reservations.

Reservation can be defined as a process of facilitating a person who has category certificates. This policy was made and implemented on the basis of recommendations of Mandal Commission. The main purpose of this reservation policy was upliftment of some underprivileged classes of Indian society but this policy witnessed the rage of general class which was entirely devoid of its facilities. The policy was aimed to be implemented for ten years only but due to political insensitivity it is still continuing. So many lapses and drawbacks have raptured this policy due to its prolonged implementation. Now this policy has became a policy of the ‘Harijan Elites’ rather than of the underprivileged, weaker, poor deserving SC/ST candidates.