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Buy and subsribe here Junior science refresher published this article page no 31 on the other hand a particular occupation could only be pursued by the caste associated with it – members of other castes could not enter the occupation. these features are the prescribed rules found in ancient scriptural texts. since these prescriptions were not always practiced we cannot say to what extent these rules actually determined the empirical reality of caste – its concrete meaning for the people living at that time. as you can see most of the prescriptions involved prohibitions or restrictions of various sorts. it is also clear from the historical evidence that caste was a very unequal institution – some castes benefitted greatly from the system while others were condemned to a life of endless labour and subordination junior science refresher magazine subscription.