IRJMSH Vol 9 Issue 8 [Year 2018] ISSN 2277 – 9809 (0nline) 2348–9359 (Print) International Research Journal of Management Sociology & Humanity ( IRJMSH ) Page 177 www.irjmsh.com HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA Babali Gawade1, A R Kulkarni, MS Prashanth3 and Kailash Khanna1 1 Department of History, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, U.P. 2 College of Non-Conventional Vocational Courses for Women, SIBER, Kolhapur, MH. 3 Sagar Gangotri college of Education, Ullur- 577412 Sagar Karanatak Abstract Every society is stratified in one way or another and the possibility of absence of any stratification in any society is almost very remote. In India we find social stratification in the form of caste, based on the birth of the individual in a particular caste/family. Keywords: Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaisya, Kayastha, Harijan and Jati. Introduction Caste framework may be a marvel related to Hinduism in specific. Its beginning, advancement and existence are peculiar to India. Caste framework may be a framework much like western concept of bigotry where individuals are segregated against due to their skin colour; so also, in caste framework, segregation is done on the premise of birth i.e. a person’s social status is characterized on the premise of his/her caste in which he/she took birth which is the sole model of building up his/her social status. In other words, on the premise of caste, it is settled at the time of a person’s birth that whether she/he would have higher or lower status in social pecking order Objectives 1. To know the historical back ground of caste system in india 2. To understand the basic tenets of caste system in india Method Historical method is used for describing the development of the concept at hand. Scope Evolution of caste system in India is described with historical point of view. Development of thought The beginning of the caste framework in India isn't completely known, but castes appear to have begun more than 2,000 a long time back. Beneath this framework, which is related with Hinduism, individuals were categorized by their occupations. Although initially caste depended upon a person's work, it before long got to be genetic. Each individual was born into an