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One of the most significant yet paradoxical changes in the caste system in the contemporary period is that it has tended to become ‘invisible’ for the upper caste, urban middle, and upper classes. Elaborate.
“One of the most significant yet paradoxical changes in the caste system in the contemporary period is that it has tended to become ‘invisible’ for the upper caste, urban middle and upper classes.” Justify the statement.
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Solution
- Upper-caste, urban middle, and upper classes have benefited the most from post-colonial developmental policies.
- Their caste status had already given them economic and educational advantages, so they could fully use new opportunities.
- They gained from subsidized professional education and from the expansion of public sector jobs in the early decades after Independence.
- Their early lead in education meant they did not face serious competition from other groups; over generations they came to believe their success had nothing to do with caste.
- For the later generations of these groups, strong economic and educational capital ensures good life chances, so caste seems to play no role in their public life and is limited only to personal matters like marriage, kinship, and religious practice.
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