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What are the changes in the cultural and structural aspects of the caste system since independence?

  • UPSC 2017
  • Caste System

The question turns on a distinction that must be stated before anything is described. The cultural aspect of caste is its ideological and ritual content — purity and pollution, ritual ranking, commensal rules, hereditary calling understood as duty. The structural aspect is the framework of relations — endogamy, the graded order of jatis, the jajmani…

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  • Cultural change: the idiom has lost its authority
  • Structural change: relations reordered by state and market
  • The two aspects compared
  • Conclusion

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