The Nepalese caste system is alive & active even if it doesn’t
officially exist Today there is still a very active caste system
in Nepal. Primarily associated with India, caste systems in one
form or another are evident the world over. The difference with
Nepal is that the ideals behind the caste system were made
illegal in 1962. After a decade long civil war, a fallen
monarchy, a fledgling democracy which still hasn’t been able to
form a legal constitution since 2005 and a disastrous fractured
political system Nepal’s caste system continues to influence
everyday life in Nepal. What is a caste system? The global
definition of the caste system surrounds a classification of
several hereditary groups of hierarchical social class. However
given the global nature of the ”caste system” it has in part
become fragmented into slightly different meanings depending on
the culture it’s embedded into. Thus making is a complex system
that can combine many elements from birth right, ethnicity,
occupation, power and financia