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No deep essay on Indian culture can avoid its most persistent and troubling content: hierarchy. The caste system ( Jati ) is not a relic but a lived reality, especially in rural India and in social practices like marriage and kinship. It is a deep grammar of purity and pollution that stratifies labor, residence, and social interaction. Simultaneously, India has a powerful, 150-year-old tradition of social reform—from the Buddha to Kabir to Jyotirao Phule to B.R. Ambedkar to contemporary Dalit literature and activism. This is the ongoing, bloody, and hopeful conflict at the heart of Indian society. The lifestyle of a Dalit (formerly “untouchable”) villager is vastly different from that of an upper-caste landlord, and the friction between them is as much a part of “Indian culture” as the Taj Mahal or classical dance.
Many households begin the day with a Puja (prayer) or the lighting of a Diya (lamp).
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