Originally posted by: Samaina12
health infrastructure= government takes care of it.
Caste. Creed etcetera common people bother. Stop criticising my country's practices if u don't know how they exactly started.
Everybody starts jumping guns at hindus and their practices but not one knows that christians and muslims too have castes ajd groups and far worse kind of discrimination.
Casteism was based on occupation. People would marry within castes so as to safeguard their occupation and so that their progeny wouldn't be out of work. Its only after divide and rule and colonial rule came to India that things got distorted.
most of the time getting your kid married to same caste person is to ensure she is in a familiar environment, familiar practices etc. For example olden days brahmins and vaishyas(that includes agrawals etc) were pure vegetarian and they would obviously face problem if their kid is given into a caste where they practice non vegetarianism as women were mostly dependant on their in laws and husband for survival.
These days inter caste marriages happen a lot and mostly women are independent so she can be assertive, do what she wants to.
This forum is not the place to discuss casteism andother things related to it. The limited knowledge u.possess or people here possess would not answer many questions. We have all read Indian history written by foreigners and colonial people and propagated by luytens media. Hence until our history stands corrected, stop judging hindus and India