Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Examine whether rural bondage still continues to be a social reality. Give your argument.
- UPSC 2022
- 20 marks
- Industrialization and Urbanisation in India
Bondage was abolished in Indian law twice over — Article 23 forbids begar and forced labour, and the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 extinguished every subsisting debt bond. My argument is that the institution has survived its abolition: the hereditary, caste-sanctioned form has decayed, but a contractual, debt-driven form has replaced it, and the…
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- What the old bondage was
- What has genuinely changed
- What replaced it: neo-bondage
- The state's own record
- The scholarly dispute
- Conclusion
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