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India's caste system (How did caste come about? (Brahmins (priests,…
India's caste system
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Is the system legal?
1989
quotas were extended to include a grouping called the OBCs which fall between the traditional upper castes and the lowest.
Recent decades
with the spread of secular education and growing urbanisation, the influence of caste has somewhat declined
1950
the authorities announced quotas in government jobs and educational institutions for scheduled castes and tribes
How does caste work?
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criticism
unfair and regressive: trapping people into fixed social orders from which it was impossible to escape
What about job quotas?
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the caste system would have disappeared by now if the fires were not regularly fanned by politicians
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