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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short notes with a sociological perspective on the following in about 150 words: Domestic Violence Act, 2005.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 10 marks
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 matters sociologically less for what it punishes than for what it reclassifies. It converted an event long held to be a private family matter into a public wrong, enacting the feminist claim that the personal is political.

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