'SOCIAL INCLUSION OF THE BACK WARD CLASSES WOMEN THROUGH PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION'

The Indian Caste system is the unique dimension on which the Indian society is stratified into higher and lower castes with differential access to resources of society. These are Upper classes/ castes: and backward classes/ castes. All cases belonging to the upper class category exercise control over different sources of power (viz. ritual, political and economic power). The backward classes of India of contemporary India had their origin from the numerous artisan castes that were part of the societal schema of stratification, in which these castes were only just above the so called Untouchables, whose social duty was to render services to the higher caste with Jajmani obligations in the agrarian society and with relative acceptability in view of the essential nature of their services to the four fold Varnas and the intermediary castes that emerged thereafter through the intermarriages amongst them. The artisan castes, who were at the bottom layer of the depressed castes who were just above the so called untouchables, These castes were considered as backward but not as polluting because of their functional necessity etc for the agrarian society. They were allowed to reside in the vicinity of the village and their entry into the household was permitted when needed. The scheduled castes and the backward classes were socially set apart excluded from power, education and rituals