ly embedded in the Indian way of life. However, in the case of Uttar, he fought to stay in school; thus all of his children graduated college.
             According to Weiner (1991; 3), if compulsory education existed in India then the percentage of child worker's in India would be greatly reduced. However, India's culture is based greatly on the Hindu religion (eight-one percent of India's population) which has existed for centuries. India coexists with a very complicated system of classes or castes. The idea behind the caste system is that the cast that you are born in to is the one you deserve to belong to. It is also believed that there are no mistakes as to which class you are born. Therefore, in India one can not advance in society very easily. Most believe that if you are of the middle or elite classes then you have the right to be in school and to be educated. However, they also believe that the lower classes are born to work and don't necessarily need to receive an education. According to Weiner (1991; 5) education has been a "means of maintaining differentiations among social classes," and also that too much education would cause disorder in the existing class system. These centuries of social in
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