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प्रश्न
State two reasons to say that caste alone cannot determine election results in India.
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उत्तर
Caste alone cannot determine election results in India because:
No parliamentary constituency has a clear majority of one single caste.
No party wins all the votes of a particular caste.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Social divisions based on ______________ are peculiar to India.
How can caste take various forms in politics? Explain with examples.
Jotiba Phule was a/an ______
Which leaders worked for the elimination of the caste system in India?
What is leading to the breakdown of the caste hierarchy?
Our constitution ______
The constitution ______
All societies have some kind of social inequality ______
A ladder-like formation in which all the caste groups are placed from the ‘highest’ to the lowest castes is known as ______
No parliamentary constituency in the country ______
When people say that a caste is a ‘vote bank’ of one party, it means ______
Identify the statements which suggest that it is not politics that gets caste-ridden, it is the caste that gets politicized.
- When governments are formed, political parties take care that representatives of different castes find a place in them.
- Each caste group incorporates neighbouring castes which were earlier excluded.
- Various caste groups enter into a coalition with other castes.
- Political parties and candidates in elections make appeals to caste sentiments.
Identify two reasons that state that caste alone cannot determine elections in India.
- No party wins the votes of all the voters of a caste or community.
- Some political parties are known to favour some castes and are seen as their representatives.
- No parliamentary constituency in the country has a clear majority of one single caste.
- Mobilising and securing political support has brought new consciousness among the lower castes.
In India, seats are reserved for women in ______
- Lok Sabha
- State legislative assemblies
- Cabinets
- Panchayati Raj bodies
Which one of the following social reformers fought against caste inequalities.
