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Mention different aspects of life in which women are discriminated or disadvantaged in India.


(i) Sexual division of labour at home and public places.
(ii) Gender bias in distribution of income or remuneration.
(iii) Gender bias in share of patriarchal or ancestral property.
(iv) In the field of education and political representation.

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State different forms of communal politics with one example each.


Forms of Communal Politics:
(i) Expression of communalism in everyday beliefs
(ii) Quest for political dominance of one's own religious community
(iii) Political mobilisation on religious lines 

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State two reasons to say that caste alone cannot determine election results in India.

The reasons are :
(i) No parliamentary constituency in the country has a clear majority of one single caste.
(ii)Sitting MP or MLA frequently lose election in our country. That could not have happened if all caste and communities were frozen in their in their political preferences.

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What is the status of women's representation in India's legislative bodies?

The percentage of elected women members  in Lok Sabha crossed 10% of its total strenght for the first time in 2009. Their share in state assemblies is less than 5 percent .
In the goverment, Cabinets are largely all male -even when women become the Chief Ministers or Prime Minister.

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State how caste inequalities are still continuing in India.

Caste inequalities are still continuing in India through:
(i)Hereditary occupational division 
(ii)Marriages within the caste group
(iii)Exclusion of and discrimination against the 'outcast' groups

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