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Discuss how occupational diversification has affected the pattern of social stratification in India.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Indian stratification was historically distinctive because rank, occupation and ritual standing arrived together in one package called caste. Occupational diversification has broken that package open without producing equality. The result is a stratification order that is more plural in its criteria and no more open in its outcomes.

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  • The mechanism: how diversification changes ranking
  • The dimensions along which the pattern has shifted
  • Diversification without equalisation
  • Conclusion

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