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Critically assess the forms in which untouchability continues to be practised.

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  • Caste System

Assessing continuity requires periodisation rather than a list. Since Article 17, untouchability has not simply survived or simply declined: it has retreated in the domains where enforcement became costly, persisted where it is tied to land and labour, and reappeared in institutions the Constitution itself created. B. R. Ambedkar's warning that political equality would sit…

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  • The arc since abolition
  • What has genuinely retreated
  • What has persisted
  • What is new, and what it reveals
  • Conclusion

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