Shubham KumarAIR 1 · CSE 2020 · 258 wordsTheir whole copy
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Caste system is a system where people are divided into different groups, and are placed in hierarchy, affecting their access to resources based on hierarchy.
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Caste system in changing socio-economic conditions :-
(1) with increasing Industrialization & Urbanization, one may think
Caste would have no role.
New role → Caste based Ghettos in cities
[Banya living together]
↓
Concentration /population of upper caste people in metropolis & major cities more
(2) Focus shifting to individual skill for employment but,
Caste based promotions still a reality
Vacancy of SC posts in higher bureaucracy
(3) Organizations like DICCI (Dalit), and National Commission of Scheduled Caste & National Commission of Backward Class not only give voices to lower caste people but also strengthens the caste identity.
(4) Inter-Caste marriages are still not accepted.
Eg → Honour killings
Khap panchayats
(5) Discrimination still faced in access to resources like Education, Healthcare service Eg → Villegers stopped sending their children in school as the food was being cooked by a dalet.
Caste system in Politics
(1) Politicization of caste → rise of vote bank politics → Dominant Caste Politics YADAVS giving vote to specific party. (2) It has strengthened through caste based leaders emerging. (3) Traditional caste based panchayats still functioning.
- Reservation has also strengthened the identity.
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The caste identity has changed & gained new form in recent times with many castes demanding lower status to gain benefits of reservation in jobs & education. Eg - Patidars, Jatts agitation. Also many castes now strengthening their identity rather than blindly copying upper caste.
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