SOCIO ECONOMIC ISSUES RELATED TO URBANISATION

CASTE IN URBAN INDIA
With Growing secularisation caste bonds have weakened and gave more importance to class structure in urban areas. Generally caste is thought to be a phenomenon of rural India mainly associated with agrarian economy. Caste system has been viewed as a system which has restricted the development of non-agrarian economy. It is assumed that urbanization along with industrialization would induce certain essential changes in the caste-based system of stratification