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Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer

Discuss the trends in emigration focusing on its major thrust.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Cultural Setting

Thrust is not an inventory of destinations — it is the direction and composition of change: where the centre of gravity of Indian emigration has moved, what skill it carries, and which regions now supply it.

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  • Reading the Thrust
  • Phase I — Indentured and Colonial Trade Emigration (1834-1947)
  • Phase II — The Gulf Labour Thrust (post-1973)
  • Phase III — Skilled and Student Emigration (post-1990s)
  • Evidence That the Thrust Has Turned
  • Verdict

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