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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Role of pressure groups in Indian politics.

  • UPSC 1996, 1993
  • Politics and Society in India

Pressure groups articulate sectional interests to government without contesting for office. The category was built on Anglo-American experience, where the axis of organisation is occupation. In India the axis is more often ascriptive, the groups are rarely autonomous of parties, and agitation substitutes for lobbying. That is what makes the Indian case distinctive.

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  • Ascription, not occupation, as the organising axis
  • Institutional and anomic groups loom large
  • Weak autonomy from parties
  • What they nevertheless achieve
  • Conclusion

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