Salvery and cast system of Nepal: A Perspective

I would love to share my experience, but one thing that I have to say is slavery has been practiced in different ways in different parts of the world. Its practice and meanings are different in retrospect of its definition and uses. Even in Nepal there are many forms of slavery that have been banned and withheld in the context of saving the rights and dignity of the vulnerable.

Especially if you look at the lifestyle of indigenous and marginalized group of people, still today they lack basic facilities of education, health and  other basic rights that they deserve and this is the main problem. They have rights, but they don't know what and how to deal about it and it is a great issue of concern.  The political parties are busy in making the law, but as soon as the political agendas are dropped out, then they are left alone with their own trauma of same old scares of being a Dalit or from a marginalized community.

It is said the difference between the people not only instigate their level of thinking, but it’s the wisdom of the people that matters the most and that is what makes the real difference.

There is a saying in devanagari Kunda kunda pani munda munda buddhi
Kamlary or slavery is illegal in Nepal but still the tradition lives in hidden form in some of the remote villages of Nepal, where still today women are sold and bought in the name for food or work.  The level of slavery has stepped up it is now expanding, with the opening of the internet and globalization, its now a world where men and women are sold openly in the name of foreign employment and according to their luck and destiny they end up either in a dark room filled with customers or in the glamorious world of the glitz and colors.

One thing we all need to understand is  caste system in Nepal has its deep roots affiliated to Hindu tradition, but it is very different and unique in its practice according to regions and places.
In different places men and women are kept as a Slave in the name of Kamlaries, Jhumas and Devaki. In different ways.

In 1992 the Nepal government abolished, another religious tradition of dedicating girls to service in a temple for life by marrying them to Hindu gods. The Devaki tradition had been misused for years with the girls forced into prostitution.

Comparing Nepal and India is completely a wrong scenario, Nepal and India have their own caste society and their practices are completely different the only similarities that these two countries have is the understating of culture that too is limited by demographics.

Nepal has its own traditional cast system that is more unique in its practices where traditions like the living goddess still exist.   India is a predominant super power country that was infiltrated by the common wealth so most of their system was corrected long back. The Chandra Shamsher, one of the Rana Prime ministers, declared an end to slavery by providing relief to bonded laborers in 1924-1926. Despite of this fact, slavery in Nepal is still rampant and widely practiced in different forms. This is not only in the case of Nepal but is also true all around the world.

At that time  the Cast system was a big push to the economy as in the past due to the caste system various art forms and traditional values were just passed on from generation to generation in specific cast that led to the purification and the creation of some of the best skills and culture. But having said that it also slashed the social values and discriminated people from doing things. It created physical barriers of WHO IS WHO AS WELL.

Yes, with long term of social degradation and adaptation slavery and the caste system, both went hand in hand. Most of the lower community people were treated badly due to their financial condition where they would be deprived of their rights and made to work like animals in terms of being slaves and fulfilling the desires of their masters.

Basically the higher caste people would treat lower caste people as animals.  Lower castes and their community had no value and only their work and labor had value for earning their living.

Nepal is still in the grasps of traditional beliefs and prejudices. Still today we practice the tradition of living goddess. So one can imagine the physical state of mentality we are dealing with. It is changing and it will take some time.

Slavery system in  Nepal still exists. It  not only  is related socially, but it is part of our society that lives, breathes and is alive to overcome this plague reservation or awareness is a must but most importantly the feeling of equality one of the crucial factor that can help the suppressed group of people