Assimilation is a process of cultural unification and homogenisation by which newly entering or subordinate groups lose their distinctive culture and adopt the culture of the dominant majority. It may be forced or voluntary.

1. The most important official effort to collect information and data on Caste was through the census. The census became a regular ten-yearly exercise from 1881 onwards.
2. The new land revenue settlements and other related arrangements and laws served to provide legal recognised to customary rights of the upper castes.

Cultural diversity is a group of diverse individuals from different cultures or societies. Usually, cultural diversity takes into account language, religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, age and ethnicity.

According to the Adam Smith, 'Invisible hand' is an unseen force at work that converts what is good for each individual into what is good for society.

Civil society is the non-state and non-market part of the public domain in which individuals get together voluntarily to create institutions and organisations.

1. Activities of civil society organisations have an wider range, it covers advocacy and lobbying activity with national and international agencies as well as active participation in various moments.
2. The issues taken up are: tribal struggles for land rights, devolution in urban governance, campaigns against rape and violence against women, rehabilitation of those displaced by dams and other developmental projects, fishermen’s struggles against mechanised fishing, rehabilitation of hawkers and pavement dwellers, campaigns against slum demolitions and for housing rights, primary education reform, distribution of land to Dalits, etc.
3. Civil liberties organisations have been particularly important in keeping a watch on the state and forcing it to obey the law.