Question

In what forms does untouchability still exist?

Answer 1

marriages, people still seeing alliance by keeping untochability in mind

Answer 2

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I would say that untouchability is not as dominant now as it was in earlier times in India.  One of the premises of the Indian nation at the birth of independence in 1947 was that untouchability should be eradicated.  As part of his call for Indian autonomy, Gandhi was a vocal critic of the caste system that permitted untouchability.  There is little doubt that works like Anand's helped to bring the issue to a level of awareness where echoes to call for its end were present.  Hence, to a legal and theoretical standpoint, untouchability has been reduced in practice.  At the same time, the globalized setting that has catapulted India into being a world force has also changed the perception of untouchability.  With rapid urbanization and large scale migration, ensuing crowded living arrangements and public transport, and the broad-based mix of workplace colleagues, there has been a significant change in social attitudes, at least in the larger towns and certainly in the metros. Associations of occupations with caste have also been changing, especially as new occupations are developing.  Along these lines, the political and economic enfranchisement of more individuals has helped to reduce the stinging presence of the system of untouchability.  I don't think that anyone could firmly say that it is entirely absent or has been thoroughly eradicated because its presence in Indian society is one that spans centuries.  Yet, I think that untouchability does not occupy as central of a role in Indian life as it once did.