Kshatriyas

With the Aryan migrations into the Indus River Valley civilization, came the idea of the caste or varna system. Within this caste system were many groups of people, or jati. The warrior class, the Kshatriyas, were the highest class among the Indus River except during the Epic Age when the Brahmin, or priest class, was considered the highest varna. The Kshatriyas job was to protect the Indus River civilization from foreign enemies and to maintain the centralized order of the caste system. This caste system effected ways of marriage, who one could associate with, their legal rights, and how much contact one could have with the peasant classes. http://inannareturns.com/gita/images/krishna_and_arjuna_on_battlefield.jpg

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Created by Hannah Hollon 9/22/08 Edited by Joe Hampton on September 24, 2008. Edited by Allie Pinosky on September 25, 2008.