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Caste-like formations are present in Non-Hindu religious communities as well. Discuss with examples.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Caste System

If caste were only what Louis Dumont made of it — the purity–pollution ideology that encompasses Hindu society — conversion out of Hinduism should dissolve it. It does not. Ranked, endogamous, descent-based groups survive in every Indian religious community, and that survival is the strongest single argument for reading caste as a social structure rather…

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