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Write short note : Social Implications of Intercaste marriages.

  • UPSC 1989
  • Systems of Kinship in India

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B. R. Ambedkar settled this question in Castes in India (1916) and Annihilation of Caste (1936): endogamy is the essence of caste. A caste reproduces itself by controlling whom its women marry, so inter-caste marriage is, in his words, the real remedy. Every social implication follows from that.

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