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Discuss the basic problems of the Scheduled Castes. Bring out the impact of conversion on their social status.

  • UPSC 1989
  • Visions of Social Change in India

The Scheduled Castes — 20.14 crore, 16.6 per cent of the population in Census 2011 — suffer a disability in which ritual stigma and material deprivation reinforce each other. B. R. Ambedkar held that untouchability is produced by caste and sanctioned by scripture, so Hinduism cannot reform it away: that is why conversion became a…

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