‘tribal organisation’ and ‘Hindu organisation’. technology of production. Tribal technology is believed to be inferior. By contrast, the caste system has a superior technological apparatus and a system of occupational specialisation and inter-dependence castes are primarily associated with the agricultural mode of production While caste society is considered to be surplus producing, tribes are essentially subsistence economies, in which whatever is produced is for the purpose of consumption. From this, we may infer that if a caste society is ‘future-oriented’, a tribe is rooted in its ‘present’. Against this background, whenever the tribes had difficult economic periods, they entered the portals of caste society, taking up an occupation and supplying its product to non-tribal groups, thus entering into what has been called in north India, the jajmanî system (the system of patron-client relations). If it was im...
Caste is not 4 letter word. It is more like a 3 letter word: you talk about it, but with a giggle; everyone does it; with some one close you can talk about it openly - the good, the bad & the ugly aspects of it. Ignorance or denial of it, like that of its 3 letter cousin leads to wrong attitude, confused identity, relationship problems, & exploitation. Caste Education/Literacy is a right of information in a matter that affects us so as to have healthy identity and relationships
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