NAME: RAKSHITA MEENA
ENTRY NO.: 2020CE01278
COURSE: HUL272
MINOR-1 (2021-2022)
20-09-2021
RURAL INDIA
Rural India remains a caste-based society. After, so many years of
independence, many are still slaves to caste discrimination. Even today
people of lower caste are seen as inferiors by the ones at highest
position in this hierarchy system. In villages, specially the one I belong
people still follow ancient practises like different living localities, wells,
temples, farms, etc. Its not that people of other caste are discriminating
against us , in fact most of the people living in my village belong to my
own caste but they are divided in different subcastes like the ones who
ancestor started doing farming on their own land are called Jamidar
meena and the one whose ancestors didn’t practised farming then are
still called Chokidar meena , these subcastes are further divided based
on gotra system. There are three different temples in my native village
belonging to different gotra or subcastes and we are not allowed to visit
other two. Even the agriculture lands are located at two distinct ends of
the village. There are many gotras like Jagarwal, Jorwal, Tatu, Gomladu,
Lalshotia, Cherwal, Maher, etc some of them were there from earlier
but many came into being since few decades based on the facts e.g.
