It is a measure comparing the portion of a population which is composed of dependents (elderly people who are too old to work and children who are too young to work) with the portion i.e. in the working age group (15-64 years).

The three forms of capital on which social inequality is based are:
(i)  Economic Capital: It can be divided in the form of material assets and income.
(ii) Cultural Capital: It consists of educational qualifications and status.
(iii) Social Capital: It is in the form of networks of contacts and social associations.

Two factors that encourage regionalism are as under:
(i) Regionalism is encouraged by the geographical concentration of these identity markers in special parts and fuelled by a sense of regional deprivation. 
(ii) Regionalism is deeply rooted in India because of the diversity of languages, cultures, tribes and religions. It cannot be gainsaid that language plays a sentimental role in the sphere of regionalism. 

Community identity is based on birth and ‘belonging’ rather than on some form of acquired qualifications or ‘accomplishment’. It is what we ‘are’ rather than what we have ‘become’. We don’t have to do anything to be born into a community – in fact, no one has any choice about which family or community
or country they are born into.

The term 'Sanskritisation' was coined by M.N. Srinivas. It refers to a process whereby members of a middle or lower caste try to raise their own social status by adopting the ritual, domestic and social practices of a caste or castes or higher status.