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Discuss industrialisation and urbanisation as interrelated factors of social change in India.

  • UPSC 1982
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Yogendra Singh, in Modernization of Indian Tradition (1973), argued that change in India has been structural at some levels and merely cultural at others. Industrialisation and urbanisation are the clearest instance: they reorganised where Indians live and how they earn, but altered family, caste, gender and values unevenly, often by adapting tradition rather than displacing…

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  • How the two interlock
  • Family and kinship
  • Caste and class
  • Gender
  • Values
  • Conclusion

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