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Write short note: Cultural and structural aspect of caste.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Caste System

Caste can be described in two registers. Its cultural aspect is the body of ideas, values and ritual practices that give caste its meaning — purity and pollution, dharma and karma, hierarchy as a value, hereditary calling as obligation. Its structural aspect is the arrangement of relations those ideas organise — endogamy, segmental division, the…

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