Question

5. How does caste affect politics in India?

Answer 1

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Caste Influences Political System:

1. Caste reserves its votes for its own members.

2. People prefer to vote for a candidate of their own caste irrespective of the merits/demerits of the candidate.

3. Leader of a particular caste prefers to select his own caste people in different posts.

4. All political parties calculate caste support at the time of distribution of tickets.

5. Political behaviour also influences the caste people.



Politics provides mainly three things to caste people:

1. Prestige and power.

2. Economic benefits.

3. Administrative patronage.

Caste provides, on the other hand, leadership to the political structure.


This leads to the following consequences:

(a) The leaders mobilise politics and its principles through their caste ideologies.

(b) The leaders are bound to give importance to the caste opinion.


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