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Some solutions:

Further promote participation of people in free market: Increased prosperity would further dilute the caste identities.

Strengthen Section 123 of RPA 1951: To prevent parties from invoking votes solely on caste grounds.

Rationalize reservation system: To target benefits only to deserving candidates so as to usher in egalitarian society.


 

12. The present form of caste as an institution has been shaped both by developments during the colonial period as well as changes witnessed in independent India. Discuss.Answer:Changes during British rule/Colonial periodPost-independence period