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Which means of social mobility were available in the traditional caste system? Describe the form of social mobility in contemporary Indian society.

  • UPSC 2000
  • Caste System

The textual model of caste allowed no mobility at all: rank was fixed at birth and sanctioned by karma. The field studies of the 1950s showed otherwise. The real contrast is not between a closed past and an open present, but between mobility of the group achieved in a ritual idiom and mobility of the…

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  • Means available in the traditional order
  • Forms in contemporary India
  • What has changed, and what has not
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