DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2017.v05i06.020

Pages: 648-651

The present study is purported to examine and understand the Indian caste system as the unique ideology of exclusivist doctrine which has its distinctive and continuous impact on Indian social, political and cultural life. A central element in the humanization debate in the Indian context is the desire to return to the concept of equality and social justice. The most distinctive feature of Swami Vivekananda’s teaching is that he applied his philosophical principles of Vedanta to the affairs of everyday life. Being a Vedantin, Vivekananda has firm faith in the inner unity of all. He depicts Vedantic society as the ideal form of society as it was based on equality. His ideals and principles of Vedanta are instrumental in patterning and structuring the cultural spheres of people. Every social and cultural change alters the essence of the activities in the different social spheres and is manifested in new interconnections between those spheres. Thus, we observe tremendous changes occur in the progress in traditional India, and the old values relating to caste system. We are especially taking a re-look at the present research topic in a deeper level by taking recourse to the major mode of reformation of caste system in perspective of Swami Vivekananda.