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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Bring out the various issues involved in Dalit movements in India.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 20 marks
  • Politics and Society in India

Ghanshyam Shah insists there has never been one unified Dalit movement, only many movements sharing a quest for equality, self-dignity and the end of untouchability. What holds them together is therefore not organisation but a cluster of recurring issues, which fall into claims for recognition, claims for redistribution, claims for security, and unresolved arguments inside…

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  • Recognition: dignity, culture and religion
  • Redistribution: land, labour, reservation
  • Security: atrocity and the failure of justice
  • Arguments inside the movement
  • Conclusion

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