Caste System

I believe that what the british were trying to do with the Indian caste system was not justified in any way, but that still does not mean that the indian caste system is actually effective for a functioning mutual society. The British like any western culture have no right to judge any aspect of a foreign nation's traditions and try to make them more like western traditions. The Indian people have the right to decide what's right for them, though they may or may not be right about it nobody else should impose anything on them, because they will only react violently as evidenced by the sepoy rebellion. The Indian caste system is, like most any sort of older social structure, rather flawed, and though it may have perhaps worked well enough for India as a whole, it still left many of its population suffering while the wealthy became powerful. India has gone its own way since then and it should be noted that good people in Indian society can admit that some aspects of their culture is flawed and that they will make progress more and more until it is no longer needed.

Jacob Krijt