Dalit girl's limbs chopped off for resisting rape in UP, India

[Developereo]

None of the organizations discriminate some one based on caste and it is punishable by law. Caste has become irrelevant in cities nowadays. It will take time for remote villages change.

Can you tell someone's caste by looking at them? By their name?
In other words, can you deduce someone's caste without them telling you explicitly?

 

[notsuperstitious]

Can you tell someone's caste by looking at them? By their name?
In other words, can you deduce someone's caste without them telling you explicitly?

Surely not by looking at one, but I guess most cases by their last names...

Though my last name is found in more than one caste...

 

[LaBong]

Can you tell someone's caste by looking at them? By their name?
In other words, can you deduce someone's caste without them telling you explicitly?

You can tell by their surname, although I'm not very good at it. It's not possible to tell them apart by looking at them, there is no genetic disparity between various castes.

 

[twoplustwoisfour]

Can you tell someone's caste by looking at them? By their name?
In other words, can you deduce someone's caste without them telling you explicitly?

Jayron talked about the small villages where everyone knows everyone else. People identify each other by their villages/lineages. Of course you can tell their caste by their lineage.

 

[Developereo]

Jayron talked about the small villages where everyone knows everyone else. People identify each other by their villages/lineages. Of course you can tell their caste by their lineage.

Right. that's different because you know the person (or their ancestry).
But in cities, meeting a total stranger, you wouldn't know until you found out their last name.

Also, I have the vague impression (not sure how) that caste system mirrors skin color to some extent.
Brahmins tend to be fairest and dalits darkest, with the middle castes (tradesmen? warriors?) being in the middle.
Maybe the preference for fair skin is a byproduct of the caste system, quite apart from Western influence?

 

[twoplustwoisfour]

Right. that's different because you know the person (or their ancestry).
But in cities, meeting a total stranger, you wouldn't know until you found out their last name.

Also, I have the vague impression (not sure how) that caste system mirrors skin color to some extent.
Brahmins tend to be fairest and dalits darkest, with the middle castes (tradesmen? warriors?) being in the middle.
Maybe the preference for fair skin is a byproduct of the caste system, quite apart from Western influence?

Although I don't have much knowledge of the caste system, but I don't think skin colour has anything to do with the caste system in India. Yes, fairer skin has always been considered to be a blessing, even lord Krishna used to lament the fact that his beloved was fair while he was dark. But I don't think skin colour determined your caste.

 

[ajtr]

^^kaale kaale ram de pyare.

 

[LaBong]

Although I don't have much knowledge of the caste system, but I don't think skin colour has anything to do with the caste system in India. Yes, fairer skin has always been considered to be a blessing, even lord Krishna used to lament the fact that his beloved was fair while he was dark. But I don't think skin colour determined your caste.

Considering the playboy he was, I don't think dark skin was considered lack of beauty back then. Another example is Draupadi(Krishnaa).