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The significant changes since independence in the social composition of India’s ruling class, both in politics and in the bureaucracy – with leaders from the formerly “untouchable” and backward castes elected to high office – have vindicated democracy in practice.

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And in some countries, like India, the lower castes are condemned to empty the pits, and they're further condemned by society.

We need to stop the practice of lower castes and lower-status people going down and being condemned to empty pits.

Another possibility is the division of humankind into different biological castes, with the rich being upgraded into virtual gods, and the poor being degraded to this level of useless people.

By the mid-20th century, the original four castes associated with specific occupations had been divided into some 3000 sub-castes.

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