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Explain 5 reasons for declining caste system in India.

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Urbanisation: with the advent of economic development and industrialization, people tend to be more educated and started to believe in working together without discriminating others.

(i) Efforts of social reformers like Phule, Gandhiji, Ambedkar against caste system have helped to promote a casteless society.

(ii) Economic development has reduced the emphasis on caste.

(iii) Large sacle urbanisation has disminished the awareness of caste, as people rub shoulders in buses, trains and offices.

(iv) Growth of literacy and education has helped to decrease the belief in caste.

(v) Occupational Mobility: people got engaged in a globalized work culture that demanded to move to different paces and work. This invokes d the feeling of adapting others culture and respect towards it.

(vi) Breaking of archaic norms: the position of landlords vanished, everyone was allowed to perform any work.

(vii) Nowadays people have tended to be occupied with their own works.

(viii) The constitution also states the philosophy against discrimination, and in some cases punishable too.

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