The first acquaintance. Division of the Indian society

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But observing capital crowd, it is practically impossible to notice signs one more essential traditional divisions of the Indian society. It is a question about induistskih castes. Their four cores: brahmany, kshatrii, vajshi and shudry. But each of them shares on tens, hundreds and thousand podkast. All them is to three and a half thousand. Besides, some more podkast are outside of the basic exclusive system. These are untouchable, or haridzhane (children of the god) as named them Mahatma Gandi. And though under the constitution exclusive division is abolished, the exclusive system with its rigid regulation of rules of a life, work, a life, dialogue, with insuperable barriers between representatives of castes and podkast far yet has not become obsolete. In India it is seldom possible to meet interexclusive marriage, but continually, first of all in village, declare itself the discrimination facts in the relation haridzhan.

India - a secular, multinational federative state where under the law all citizens equal though for three with superfluous decades of independent development in the country it is much made for people rallying on obshchegrazhdanskoj, to a secular basis, till now there are displays national and religious break a set. First of all it is consequences of a policy ' divide and "dominate ' which were spent two centuries to India by the British colonizers. Their main weapon was excitation religious-communal break a set for the purpose of derivation of weights from emancipating struggle. Before arrival of Englishmen to India induizm and Moslem peacefully co-existed, representing unity of the Indian culture and traditions. Englishmen began to preach the hatred doctrine, to divide Hindus and Moslems, to set one on others.