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Discuss the factors which contributed to industrial modernization in India. What are the salient features of new industrial class structure?

  • UPSC 2012
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Industrial modernisation in India was state-directed before it was market-driven, and the class structure it produced is not the European one. Two things must therefore be set out: the forces that carried the transformation, and the peculiar class order that resulted from it.

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  • Factors behind industrial modernisation
  • Salient features of the new industrial class structure
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