Caste and Politics: An inseparable concoction
The caste hierarchy in India goes like Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras where Brahmins are in the highest tier of the hierarchy. Caste is the basis of social stratification in India. A caste is a form of ascribed inequality that has modernized itself in the present times. Though it had roots in the varna system of Hindu philosophy which is divinely ordained and corresponded to functional divisions gradually it led to social inequality. The nationalist elite promised a casteless societ