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Caste remains an important social, political, economic, cultural and psychological phenomenon in various spheres of Indian social life. The Indian caste system is seen as a hierarchical system where at the lower level are groups such as Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Castes who experience caste-based discrimination in almost all spheres of their lives. Social adjustment refers to the balanced performance of various social roles by an individual to achieve his or her real goals. The main objective of this study was to find out the effect of caste on social adjustment in adolescents. Keeping in mind the objective of this study, three hypotheses were formulated which are as follows: (i) Social adjustment of Scheduled Castes will be better than Scheduled Tribes, (ii) Social adjustment of Other Backward Castes will be better than Scheduled Castes, and (iii) Social adjustment of General Castes will be better than Other Backward Castes. For this, a total of 100 adolescents aged between 17 to 21 years were selected as samples from A N S College Barh (Patna) using the purposive sampling method. Data collection was done using the Mohshin-Shamsahd Adaptation of Bell Adjustment Inventory (1987). The data obtained was analyzed using various statistical tools like mean, SD, ANOVA, and p-value to get meaningful results. The result showed that on the level of social adjustment Scheduled Castes were better than Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Castes were better than Scheduled Castes while General Castes were better than Other Backward Castes.