Casteism and Honour Killings in India: A Crossroads Analysis

• Caste is a deeply rooted social phenomenon in India, influenced by social customs and family norms.

• Social justice interventions have been a major threat to caste rigidity, allowing marginalized communities, particularly Dalits, to integrate into mainstream society.

• This has led to a new frontier of social tension, with romantic unions crossing caste lines, particularly between Dalit men and dominant caste women.

Tamil Nadu’s Caste Paradox

• Despite strong democratic voices against casteism, caste is glorified on social media, leading to some accounts defending caste killings.

• The paradox suggests that caste continues to dictate social preferences, marriage alliances, and “honourable behavior.”

Family and Caste

• The caste system survives because it is protected and transmitted within the family, making it transgenerational.

• The psychological and cultural importance of the ‘family’ is changing, with new models of relationship emerging, such as open partnerships, cohabitation, single living, and self-parenting.

• As the family unit weakens, so does the primary mechanism through which caste is enforced and reproduced.

Caste in India: A Crossroads

• There are violent reactions and online glorifification of caste, while strong democratic voices against honour killings and a new generation slowly withdrawing from social values are present.

• Tamil Nadu represents this contradiction, a State where both the loudest resistance to casteism and the quietest internal caste pride coexist.

Casteism and Honour Killings is important topic for Civil service exam (WBCS).

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