Social Distancing in India

Social distancing in a deeply fragmented society like India is both vertical – along class and caste lines – and horizontal, involving the separation of people within the same groups. India’s already entrenched hierarchies of power meant vertical distancing was quickly introduced. But horizontal social distancing has posed as a much bigger problem.

With the lockdown, the more privileged groups in Indian society have quickly established greater social distance between themselves and others around them. It simply required a widening of existing hierarchical power structures in society, which are often based on class and caste.

Reference

https://theconversation.com/indias-stark-inequalities-make-social-distancing-much-easier-for-some-than-others-134864

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/coronavirus-outbreak-untouchability-even-in-quarantine/cid/1764186