Devidas Telakat 533 days ago

Caste has been named by Henry Maine as ''the most blighting of social institutions''.The Gita speaks only of Varnas-classes-on the demarcations of quality and conduct-''Guna karma vibhagasha''.The four are the intellectuals,the warriors,the businessman and the others who play a supportive role.This stratification can be seen in every society.When access to knowledge ws closed down,it produced the caste system which became a blight.The answer is in making access to knowledge open to all and for the taking on the basis of aptitude.Caste need not be used in economics where money has no caste.The defence forces are effective because the personnel are selected on the basis of required abilities and skills.No other where caste is used for selection compares.Given education and skill development opportunities properly,anyone can make the grade.It is scientific knowledge that every child can learn anything it is taught up to the age of fourteen;thereafter it become selective.McCauley introduced a system of schooling to produce an army of clerks.The Congress found it opportune to perpetuate it and denied compulsory free primary education to children upto the age of fourteen for it was easier to fool those who did not have the ability to question.India sadly still is caught up in the whirlpool of caste.A truck driver''s son recently made it to the IIM. I had an SC student for his LL.M in Constitutional Law who stood the grind, earning a high First Class.He is acting CJ in Karnataka.