Manual Scavenging and Caste-based Violence in India

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__________ measures have been introduced in the post-independence era to safeguard the interests of the down-trodden.

Legislative

__________ Act, 1955, provided for punishment against the practice of untouchability.

Untouchability (Offenses)

Sanskritisation is a process of change related to the positional change in the ________ system.

caste

__________ has brought occupational changes cutting across the caste barriers.

Westernization Signup and view all the answers

__________ has made the caste system more flexible, with castes gradually becoming classes in urban areas.

Modernization Signup and view all the answers

With the growth of industrial towns and cities, migration has ________ up.

spiraled Signup and view all the answers

Leaving behind their traditional roles, Brahmins have become ______, whereas Vaishyas have joined teaching

traders Signup and view all the answers

Even though untouchability and caste-based discrimination are barred under the Constitution of India, occupations like manual scavenging have the majority of workers from lower ______

castes Signup and view all the answers

The position of lower castes has improved economically as well as socially due to steps initiated by the ______

government Signup and view all the answers

Even the constitution provisions for reservation of seats and jobs for the people belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have failed to produce the desired integrative ______

effect Signup and view all the answers

Political mobilization based on caste has been ______

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Factors Affecting the Changes in the Caste System include Sanskritisation, Modernisation, Westernisation, Industrialisation and urbanisation, and Democratic ______

decentralisation Signup and view all the answers

Manual scavenging eventually became a ______ -based occupation

caste Signup and view all the answers

Caste based violence in India is related to instances of inter-caste marriage and assertion of basic rights by ______

Dalits Signup and view all the answers

The system of caste-based reservation in India comprises of a series of affirmative action measures, such as reserving access to seats in the various legislatures, to government jobs, and to enrollment in higher educational institutions. E.g. Scheduled Caste groups are given 15% reservation in government services and educational ______

institutions Signup and view all the answers

Due to economic and social necessities, inter-caste marriages on western lines are being performed at ______

increased Signup and view all the answers

Orthodox practices of the caste system such as child marriage, ban on widow re-marriage, ban on conversion, insensitiveness of superior class towards the low caste people are being challenged in the wake of ______

urbanization Signup and view all the answers

Due to the frequent mixing of the people at meetings, conferences, seminars, etc., food habits have ______

changed Signup and view all the answers