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Gender, Religion and Caste
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State how caste inequalities are still continuing in India.

Answer

Caste inequalities are still continuing in India through:
(i)Hereditary occupational division 
(ii)Marriages within the caste group
(iii)Exclusion of and discrimination against the 'outcast' groups

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