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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Comment on the increasing significance of caste in politics.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Politics and Society in India

The statement assumes that caste matters more in politics than it once did. The evidence supports something subtler: caste has not grown in importance so much as changed its form, from a ritual hierarchy ordering society to a horizontal interest group competing within a democracy. Visibility has risen; the system has weakened.

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  • The case for "increasing significance"
  • Why "increasing" is the wrong word
  • The counter-evidence: caste no longer predicts the vote
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