Choose the correct statements.

(A) Urban areas may provide partial protection to socially oppressed groups from daily humiliation.
(B) In urban areas people humiliate each other on daily basis.
(C) Urban areas allow socially dominant rural groups to engage in low status work.
(D) Rural-to-urban migration has accelerated.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A), (C), (D) Only

The correct answer is Option (2) - (A), (C), (D) Only.

Sometimes the city is preferred for social reasons, specially the relative anonymity it offers. The fact that urban life involves interaction with strangers can be an advantage for different reasons. For the socially oppressed groups like the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, this may offer some partial protection from the daily humiliation they may suffer in the village (A) where everyone knows their caste identity. The anonymity of the city also allows the poorer sections of the socially dominant rural groups to engage in low status work that they would not be able to do in the village (C). All these reasons make the city an attractive destination for the villagers. The swelling cities bear testimony to this flow of population. This is evident from the rapid rate of urbanisation in the post-Independence period (D).