A caste system is a division of society based on differences of wealth, inherited rank, or occupation. What caste a person belongs to, determines such factors as his or her occupational opportunities, their relationships with members of other castes, and their access to various spiritual practices (wvnet.com). Currently, complex castes systems exist especially in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. When Aldous Hux

ley wrote Brave New World, he must have been very interested in caste systems. There are many similarities between the system of Brave New World, and current world caste systems. Although, there are some differences, the social order of Brave New World most closely resembles the caste system of India. For example, in Brave New World, the five castes described, were Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon, where Alphas were of the highest order, and the Epsilons of the lowest. Traditional Scholarship has described this more than 2,000 year old system of India to have five separate castes as well. The Indian term for caste is jati, which generally designates a group varying in size from a handful of people to many thousands. There are thousands of such jatis, each of them having their own distinctive rules, customs, and modes of government. The term Varna, which literally translates to the word color, refers to the acient and somewhat ideal division of Hindu society (factmonster.com). Although there is much debate on proper class names and titles, they are most often referred to as the

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