India is a land of complex mixing of traditions and cultures. Through its ever continuous evolution, it has developed local flavours of religions. It has adopted practices, assimilated traditions, and even transformed the religious practices that have emerged in foreign lands to the local situations and needs. One such social institution is that of caste. While, . . . → Read More: Caste outside Hinduism]]> http://www.i3pep.org/archives/2006/06/24/caste-outside-hinduism/feed/ 0 http://www.i3pep.org/archives/2005/02/19/indian-society-and-hierarchy/ http://www.i3pep.org/archives/2005/02/19/indian-society-and-hierarchy/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2005 07:52:03 +0000 Anup Mukherjee http://i3pep.org/alpha/?p=175

The socio-psychological evaluation of Indian people has generally been termed as one that is disposed to hierarchy. Indians are in general, more comfortable in a situation of hierarchy, more precisely where the hierarchy is clear and stated. In some sense that imparts definiteness to social interaction. This hierarchy can be in the form of hierarchy . . . → Read More: Indian Society and Hierarchy]]> http://www.i3pep.org/archives/2005/02/19/indian-society-and-hierarchy/feed/ 0