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Write short note : The social background of poverty.

  • UPSC 1984
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

Poverty in India is not a random shortfall of income; it is socially patterned, falling predictably on particular castes, tribes, genders and stages of the life cycle. To ask for its social background is to ask what Peter Townsend insisted on — that poverty be explained within a general theory of stratification rather than by…

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