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Caste has become all too visible for the scheduled castes and tribes. Give two examples from daily life to support this statement.

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  • For the scheduled castes and tribes, caste has become all too visible because they have no inherited educational and social capital, and because they must compete with an already entrenched upper caste group, they cannot afford to abandon their caste identity for it is one of the few collective assets they have.
  • Moreover, they continue to suffer from discrimination of various kinds. The policies of reservation and other forms of protective discrimination instituted by the state in response to political pressure serve as their lifelines.
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