curious social phenomenon.
The caste system today, like a
century ago, is not an exotic thing, it is part of the complex organization of Indian society, a multifaceted phenomenon that Indologists and ethnographers have been studying for centuries, dozens of thick books have been written about it.
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India is a democratic country and, in addition
to the prohibition of caste discrimination, has introduced privileges
for members of lower castes and tribes, for example, there are quotas for admission to higher education institutions, for holding positions in state and municipal bodies.
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The problem of discrimination against people from the
lower castes, dalits and tribal people in India is
quite serious, casteism is still the basis of the lives of hundreds of millions of Indians outside the major cities, it is there that the caste structure and all the prohibitions that continue to exist are still there.
Sri Lanka, as these countries were developing in the
womb all the same great Indian civilization, as well as in Bali. But in caste there are other cultures, for example, in Tibet, and Tibetan with the Indian caste is not correlated at all as a class structure of Tibetan society was formed independently from India.