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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

It is often alleged that the social situation in India is not conducive to the efficient functioning of a democratic polity. Comment.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Politics and Society in India

The allegation is the Indian application of mid-century modernisation theory, which held that democracy requires a prior social base — literacy, urbanism, a secular civic culture — that India lacked. The allegation is empirically serious and theoretically mistaken: it misreads India's primordial ties as obstacles when they have in fact functioned as the organisational infrastructure…

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  • The allegation at its strongest
  • Why the allegation misreads the evidence
  • What survives of the charge
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