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Write short note: Caste and Indian Polity.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Caste System

Indian democracy did not dissolve caste; it recruited it. Rajni Kothari (Caste in Indian Politics, 1970) put it as an exchange — politics becomes caste-ridden while caste becomes politicised, and in becoming political it loses ritual content. The polity is therefore the main site on which caste has been remade.

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  • Where caste enters the polity
  • What the encounter has produced
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