Explain any 3 reasons for the decline of caste system in india.

Three reasons for the decline of caste system in India are:
1. Growth of literacy and education:  After industrialization the literacy rate has increased.
2. Due to occupational mobility new generation takes up occupations other than those practised by their ancestors.
3.Large scale urbanisation - shift of people from rural areas to urban areas in search of job and better living conditions.
4.The political leaders and social reformers advocated and worked to establish a society in which caste in equalities are absent

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