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What are the different forms of untouchability still practised in India? Discuss with suitable illustrations.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Caste System

Article 17 abolished untouchability "in any form" in 1950, yet the practice has changed address rather than disappeared. B. R. Ambedkar insisted it is not the caste system's excess but its foundation, since a pure pole requires an impure one; Louis Dumont drew the corollary in Homo Hierarchicus (1966) that it cannot be abolished piecemeal.…

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  • Space, water and the dead
  • The tumbler and the plate
  • Service, temple and priest
  • Work marked as polluting
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