How many kinds of India language? ... Telugu. Tamil. Malayalam. Kannada. Austro-Asiatic. Tibeto-Burman ... Brahmin is the class of educators, law makers,.
Language, Culture and India
Language and Culture National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Anthropology Prof. Noel W. Schutz Jr.
Speaker: Lawrenzo Hung-Chun Huang
Language, Culture and India Geography India : The Concept of India
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Language, Culture and India Language India : The Eden of Multilanguage
Languages of India • How many kinds of India language? • The Investigation: 1961 census recognised 1,652 different languages in India (including languages not native to the subcontinent).
1991 census recognizes 1,576 classified "mother tongues“ SIL Ethnologue lists 415 living "Languages of India" (out of 6,912 worldwide).
• However, there are official languages of India are Hindi and English.
The languages of India belong to several major linguistic families Indo-European languages—Indo-Aryan (spoken by 70% of Indians)
Dravidian languages (spoken by 22% of Indians)
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language related to Hindi but with many Persian words, used esp in Pakistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India
Hindi
Arabic English
Language, Culture and India Culture India : The Temple of Clean Track- Caste System
Culture Early Foundations In the Aryan Invasion Theory of Western historians...the highly organized cultures of the Indus Valley and the villages in other parts of the subcontinent were overrun by lighter-skinned nomadic invaders from outside India…
http://brian.hoffert.faculty.noctrl.edu/REL100/03.Hinduism.VedicRoots.html
Hinduism Brahma
Caste System Brahmin is the class of educators, law makers, scholars and preachers of Dharma in Hinduism. It is said to occupy the highest position among the four varnas of Hinduism
Chhetri(Kshatriyas) were considered to be the second highest ranking of the varnas.The Kshatriya are members of the warrior varna. Their lifetime goal is to serve as protector to their people.
Vaisya eventually became land-owners, money-lenders and influential traders and are often credited for the evolution of capitalist ideologies in India.
Sudra is the lowest Varna in the traditional
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin
four-section division in the Hindu caste system. Their assigned and expected role in post-Vedic North India was that of farmers, craftsmen and labourers.
Caste System is a social restrictions in the Indian society. When the Aryans moved into India, they created a caste system to organize the new society. They initially put together a hierarchy of four vanas (Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra). This Caste system initially served to maintain RIGID SOCIAL BOUNDARIES between the invaders and the formal civilians.
Twice Born Group
BRAHMINS Priests
KSHATRIYAS Warriors and rulers
VAISYAS Skilled traders, merchants and minor offcials
SUDRAS Unskilled workers
PARIAH “Harijans” Outcastes, “Untouchables,” “Children of God”
Caste System
Caste System and Current India
One of India News Paper column for Brahmin
A 1750 BC. Social system Applied 21st. Century
Social Mobility
The caste system is structured so that people marry within their own caste, but it isn't unheard of to marry outside of it. In fact, having a woman marry a man of a higher varna is a way for a family to achieve social mobility. http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu91/3g.asp
Language, Culture and India
Conclusion: India is a place with complex appearance, but live at a simple soul.
