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Buy and subsribe here Junior science refresher published this article page no 33 many of the scriptural rules of caste are thus designed to prevent the mixing of castes – rules ranging from marriage food sharing and social interaction to occupation. on the other hand these different and separated castes do not have an individual existence – they can only exist in relation to a larger whole the totality of society consisting of all castes. further this societal whole or system is a hierarchical rather than egalitarian system. each individual caste occupies not just a distinct place but also an ordered rank – a particular position in a ladder-like arrangement going from highest to lowest. the hierarchical ordering of castes is based on the distinction between purity and pollution. this is a division between something believed to be closer to the sacred thus connoting ritual purity and something believed to be distant from or opposed to the sacred therefore considered ritually polluting junior science refresher magazine subscription.