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Discuss the process of mobility that has taken place in the caste structure in India. In this context, explain the convergence of caste and class.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Caste System

The caste system proscribes individual mobility but never prevented group mobility. What has changed is the currency in which mobility is claimed — from ritual emulation to land, education, jobs and votes — and that shift brings caste and class into closer alignment.

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  • Ritual mobility: Sanskritisation
  • Secular mobility: land, votes, education, law
  • The convergence of caste and class
  • Convergence checked by class differentiation
  • Conclusion

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