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Caste ideology appears to have strengthened democracy. Comment.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Politics and Society

Caste ideology in the strict sense is the belief in ranked, birth-given inequality held together by purity and pollution; Louis Dumont (Homo Hierarchicus, 1966) saw hierarchy as its core value. Democracy rests on the opposite premise of equal citizens. The statement is therefore a paradox. It holds only if we read "caste ideology" as caste…

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