Read the following passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only. In a typical Western liberal context, deepening of democracy invariably leads to consolidation of 'liberal values'. In the Indian context, democratization is translated into greater involvement of people not as 'individuals' which is a staple to liberal discourse, but as communities or groups. Individuals are getting involved in the public sphere not as 'atomized' individuals but as members of primordial communities drawn on religious or caste Community-identity seems governing force. It is not therefore surprising that the so-called peripheral groups continue to maintain their identities with reference to the social groups (caste, religion or sect) to which they belong while getting involved in the political processes despite the fact that their political goals remain more or less identical. By helping to articulate the political voice of the marginalized, democracy in India has led to 'a loosening of social strictures' and empowered the peripherals to be confident of their ability to improve the socioeconomic conditions in which they are placed. This is a significant political process that had led to a silent revolution through a meaningful transfer of power from the upper caste elites to various subaltern groups within the democratic amework of public identity governance. According to the passage, which of the mentioned political processes have led to the 'silent revolution'?

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1. AIrrelevance of caste and class hierarchies in political processes
2. BLoosening of social structures in voting behaviour and patterns
3. CSocial change through transfer of power from upper caste elites to subaltern groupsCorrect
4. DAll the statements (a), (b) and (c) given above are correct in this context.