Define the term ‘Scheduled Caste’.

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Ans: Scheduled Caste is social categorisation that characterises the lowest step of the caste hierarchy, as well as legal categorisation that relates to the constitutionally designed instrument for identifying certain caste groups for the purpose of various constitutional entitlements.

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