Theoretically, the caste system can be understood as the combination of two sets of principles, one based on ________________________and________ and the other on _________________and_____________________.

First begun in the _________s, the census became a regular ______________ exercise conducted by the British Indian government from 1881 onwards.

The 1901 Census under the direction of _______________was particularly important as it sought to collect information on the–______________________.

The ________________________ was passed which gave legal recognition to the lists or ‘schedules’ of castes and tribes marked out for special treatment by the state.

________________ and the conditions of______________in the cities made it difficult for the caste-segregated patterns of social interaction to survive.(Think outside the book(box)

Sanskritization term coined by?

In which family, the wife goes and lives in the house of her husband.

Father of Indian Sociology?

................ refers to marriage within the same caste

...................... is the group that possesses the ability to discriminate by virtue of its greater power, privilege, and social status in a society.

What were varnas?

What was an occupational group formed within the varna in ancient India?

Owner of a large estate/land who did not live on it and played no part in the agricultural economy other than claiming their rent.

State how caste inequalities are still continuing in India.

Who are Dalits ?

Choose the incorrect statement

Which leader worked for the elimination of caste system in India?

Tribal identities today are formed by the interactional process rather than any primordial (original, ancient) characteristics peculiar to tribes.

Descent leads an individual to trace kinship through female’s line.

Khasi and Jaintia tribes of Meghalaya doesn't practice making out a will ,custom prescribes the devolution of ancestral property in the female line.