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‘Despite all the fusion and fission that the caste system has undergone through the ages, it has binded to maintain the permanency of it form’. Comment.

  • UPSC 1986
  • Caste System

The proposition claims that caste's units are endlessly reorganised while the system's form endures. Read as a statement about organising principles it is largely right; read as a statement about the architecture of the system it is wrong. The distinction between the two is what the answer turns on.

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  • Fission: how castes divide
  • Fusion: how castes combine
  • What persists through both
  • But has the form itself been permanent?
  • Conclusion

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