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Life in Traditional India Imagine a place where a caste system rules the life of its people, where no matter how hard one works the caste one is in decides their life and where cow dung is considered a magical healer. That place is India. Within a country so far from the modern world, people live strictly by religion and tradition, by following their castes. It is that, that keeps them strong and has helped them survived for hundreds of years. Originally, there were four castes. The brahmans, kshatryiyas, vaiœyas, and the sudras. The lowest of all the castes is the untouchables who were not one of the original four but still considered one of the major castes. Each class represents a part of the Creator. The brahmans are thought to have come from his mouth, the kshatryiyas from the arms, the vaishyas from the thighs and the sudras from the feet. Modern Indian society had over 3000 different castes and sub castes, “the fourfold caste is merely a theoretical division of society…it is a sociological fiction.” Only two things separate the modern castes from the originals, and the things that separate them are only words. There are two names to represent the different worlds Varna meaning the first four and Jati representin