All of the Following Are True About the Jati System

question 70

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true about the jati system except

• A)it was the category of social classification with subdivisions within each for different castes.
• B)it served to categorize large numbers of individual families.
• C)it sometimes offered an opportunity for upward mobility.
• D)it could serve as a stabilizing factor in Indian life.
• E)a jati was obliged to provide for its poor and destitute members.

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