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Is the caste system immobile? Bring out the factors promoting intra-caste and inter-caste mobility.

  • UPSC 1987
  • Caste System

Caste is the textbook instance of a closed system, and the classical account treats it as immobile by definition. The evidence does not support that. Caste is immobile in its principles — hierarchy, endogamy, ascription — and remarkably mobile in its units. The question is therefore not whether movement occurs but at which level.

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  • The immobility thesis
  • Factors promoting intra-caste mobility
  • Factors promoting inter-caste mobility
  • At which level does mobility occur?
  • Conclusion

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