RELATIONSHIP OF CASTE SYSTEM WITH MEASURED INTELLIGENCE AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS IN INDIA.

The article focuses on the relationship of caste system with measured intelligence and academic achievement of students in India. Caste system is one of the institutions peculiar to India. Because of its relationship with religion, the orthodox Hindus believe that society has been divinely ordained on the basis of a hierarchy of four castes, the Brahmin, the Kshatriya, the Vaish and the Sudra. The system separates people belonging to different castes by rules limiting contacts or enjoining avoidances, such as restrictions on marriage and limitations on eating together. stage of life, the studentship. Conditions have since changed. Industrialization, spread of education, and democratization of political structure have resulted in considerable modification and relaxation of some of the rigidities of the caste system. Greater work opportunities are being created with a growth of various new occupations. Selection for type of work now depends upon individual achievement rather than the caste or the ancestral occupation. However, India is still a quite immobile, socialistic, agricultural country of great size, where castes are still struggling to maintain their isolation.