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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Analyze the changing nexus between caste and tribe.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Caste System

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Indian anthropology has never drawn a clean line between caste and tribe: every diagnostic trait — isolation, animism, egalitarianism, shifting cultivation — fails somewhere. What has changed is not the sociology but the state, which turned a fluid zone of contact into two administrative categories with different entitlements.

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  • The classical positions
  • Frameworks for the nexus
  • What the state changed
  • Assertion rather than absorption
  • Conclusion
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