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Badaga love marriage12/28/2022 ![]() Jaati (caste) is used in India specifies a subdivision of a larger division varna (a concept based on colour or race). Badagas’ religious beliefs were primitive in nature, so the religious side of their social organisation was lacking to originate caste system Caste system is associated with religion and people were categorized by their occupations. The origin of the caste system in India is shrouded, but it seems, it originated some two thousand years ago. So, there was a social compulsion to venture occupations in common. In that case, for a long period there were very few families in a hatty (hamlet) and all the families were descended from a same forefather. Badaga population was very small up to the beginning of the twentieth century and they spread over the entire Nilgiri plateau. And also all the sub groups of Badaga community engaged the same occupation. Among these a particular occupation was predominant at a particular time. Badagas major occupations were food gathering, hunting, buffalo rearing, millet cultivation (that too swift cultivation for some time) and cash crop cultivation. In India, most of the caste names are derived from occupations. It is to be noted that the very name Badaga itself is not derived from any occupation. They never developed stigma with any particular occupation. Badagas apparently changed their occupations to suit the environment. ![]() The traditional association between caste and occupation is far from dissolution. So, it is inevitable to a person to live with a unalterable particular social status throughout his life. Although caste depended upon a person’s occupation it became hereditary in due course. ![]() In caste system a person’s social status was determined by his occupation. ![]() Badagas were not under the influence of caste system in any part of their history. ![]()
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