What is the top caste in Hindu society?
Caste system in India rule in the 18th and 19th century, was not uniform in South Asia. Claude Markovits, a French historian of colonial India, writes that Hindu society in north and west India (Sindh), in late 18th century and much of 19th century, lacked a proper caste system, their religious identities were fluid (a combination of Saivism, Vaisnavism, Sikhism), and the Brahmins were not the widespread priestly group (but the "Bawas" were). Markovits writes, "if religion was not a structuring factor, neither was caste" among the Hindu merchants group of northwest India. Societal stratification, and the inequality that comes with it, still exists
Tharakan (Hindu caste) Matrimonial Services' is another initiative in the social front today. Tharakan (Hindu caste) Tharakan is a Hindu caste from the Palakkad district of Kerala, South India. The majority of the Tharakans are located in Valluvanad, with major agglomerations around Vayillyamkunnu, Katambazhippuram, Sreekrishnapuram, Mangode, Thiruvazhiyodu, Chethallur and Mannarkkad. Many Sanskrit scholars and popular astrologers originated from this community. The word Tharakan literally means the holder of document of Raja (Tharakan : Common letter or document of Raja, Gundert's dictionary). They are so called because they were the recipients of 'Tharaku' or writ of social previlege issued to them by the ruling