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[i Recommend Network] A striking feature of the underdeveloped countries of Asia is that they are hierarchical societies in which the patterns of social stratifications are characterized by social and economic inequalities which are no longer legitimized by the officially accepted system of values. In India, the relations between the social strata were organized according to the hierarchical values of the caste system which provided ideological legitimating for the traditional patters of social stratifications.

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