All of the following are true about the jati system except
A. it was the category of social classification within each of the different castes.
B. it served to categorize large numbers of individual families.
C. it sometimes offered an opportunity for upward mobility.
D. it could serve as a stabilizing factor in Indian life.
E. a jati was obliged to provide for its poor and destitute members.
Answer: A
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