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In what ways do class and caste intersect and overlap in shaping social structure?

  • UPSC 2026
  • Stratification and Mobility

Caste is a hereditary, endogamous hierarchy of status legitimised by ideas of purity. Class is a grouping by position in production and the market. Max Weber treated them as distinct orders of inequality, but in India they have long been fused, and their shifting overlap shapes social structure.

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  • Ways they overlap
  • Ways they intersect and diverge
  • The resulting structure
  • Conclusion

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