Native indian : in search of identity

Caste is deeply ingrained in Hindu psyche and thus forms the collective unconscious of Hindu-society. The upper-caste mind simply refuses to come out of its fossilised attitudes in herited from ancestors. Therefore, Brahmins or even other upper castes for that matter, consider that it is their divine right to rule over low castes.

Caste-system was invented and per petuated by the Brahmins. The rest of the upper castes were just the tools to put the theory into practice. The reason why the caste-system has survived is that its ideological basis has never been attacked. Any attack on Brahmins i infact an attack on Brahmanism, on which this system thrives.

Even in independent India, despite the policy of protective discrimination for low castes, Brahmins have monopolised every field of power and privilege. Brahmins as a single ethnic group represented 3 per cent in bu reaucracy in 1935 which has risen to 75 per cent in 1990.

Age-old contempt against low castes is now getting crystallised in the form of bitterness for those 9.7 per cent representing in Group A services.