What is Anthropological study of caste system in India?

The rudimentary definition of Anthropology is study of human but it also appends study of human societies and cultures and their development in this many years. The term is derived from Greek words arthropos means “human” and logos means “study”. This word was innovated during the Renaissance in France and through there it was been fraternize in English in 18thcentury. But it was during 19th and 20th century that bonafide study of modern anthropology was developed by Franz Boas who is consider to be the founder of modern anthropology and also consider to be the father of American Anthropology. He emanated the concept of “culture” as “learned behaviors” where he gave important to study of human culture. As he proclaimed that to study human it is important to study his culture. Because culture have direct ascendancy on human behavior.
In India also we have the branch of Anthropological study. In N.K. Das work “Dalit protest, Dalit literature and Dalit feminism. Towards a New Anthropological Approach”. Das study the caste system in India and its ramification on the people belonging to this caste amalgamation. In the study Das mention that under the caste system the people of lower caste call as “Dalit” have faced oppression for many centuries. But due to the new thinking, democratic political institution the old thinking is crumbling down Dalits are getting their rights but still in this modern globalized world the caste ideology is not totally repudiated. According to the study the people of Dalit category subsume total 60 percent of Indian population. The Anthropological survey of India has identified that from this 60 percent there is only 20 percent of Dalit population that gets prerequisites and are emancipated and are not under any caste partisanship. A new emphasis on women as a person, as gender category is emerging as a recent trend in anthropology. Where N.K. Das also focus of Dalit women and their representation in the culture and society. There are many Dalit women writers who are articulating their pain, their dissent in their works but still the condition of Dalit women is not completely change in this many years. Here N.K. Das is not only trying to be the seeker of truth but also of justice. Das also state that there is political necessity for holding on the Dalit category. Where Das at end circuitously questions today’s politics, also ask various other questions that, why even in globalized world there is such marginalization? When will it end? Even most of Dalit women writers also arouse same questions which also includes Dalit women writers like Bama and Urmila Pawar.