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Social Institutions: Continuity And Change

Question
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Mention any two changes that caste underwent during the colonial rule.

Solution
  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.