HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Aid was available from other caste members.
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Caste can give voice to individual needs of its members.
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Caste provides individuals with a secure social organization in which to live.
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Caste system helped in preservation of culture and these were passed on from generation to generation. 2. Preservation of Purity: Caste system, because of its endogenous nature, permitted marriage only within the caste and thus preserved purity of each caste.
Detailed explanation-2: -Social security: The caste system provides social security to the individual. Hutton enumerates the numerous benefits flowing to the individual from the caste system. He says that the system provides the individual with a permanent body of associations which exercise a healthy control over his behaviour.
Detailed explanation-3: -Functions of the caste system Provided social security and social recognition to individuals. It is the individual’s caste that canalizes his choice in marriage, plays the roles of the state-club, the orphanage and the benefits society. Besides, it also provides him with health insurance benefits.
Detailed explanation-4: -Industrialisation, Urbanisation and Westernisation: Due to these new economic opportunities are created which have weakened the rigid caste system.