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Compare the pressing problems of a dalit poor family living in an urban slum with a similar type of family living in a rural setting.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 10 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

B. R. Ambedkar urged Dalits to leave the village, calling it a den of localism and narrow-mindedness. The comparison tests that advice. Both families are poor and stigmatised; what differs is the form the disability takes — personalised and total in the village, impersonal and spatial in the city.

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