Caste inequality in India

Caste is an important source of economic inequality because it regulates access to various kinds of resources. For example in the past the so called untouchables were denied the right to wn land and while the so called Twice born were enjoyed predominant status in the society like they were given ultimate rights to dominate the lower caste and decide their day to day affairs.
      
Although this kind of explicit formalised inequality based on caste is outlawed, the effect of centuries of accumulated advantages and disadvantages continued to be felt till now. Moreover new kinds of inequalities have also developed in contemporary india.

Thw relationship between caste and economic status had dramatically changed now.
Today, it is possible to see very rich and very poor in each and every caste, whether low or high. This was not true twenty or thirty years ago in india. It was very indeed to find rich people in india among the lower caste and poor among the higher...

This the the true development that india had achieved in contemporary and modern period.