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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Caste and occupational mobility

  • UPSC 1994
  • Caste System

G. S. Ghurye listed lack of unrestricted choice of occupation among the defining features of caste in Caste and Race in India (1932), and varna theory assigned each order its calling. Yet the tie between caste and work was always looser in practice than in doctrine — and it has loosened further without dissolving the…

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  • The theoretical presumption
  • How far it actually held
  • What loosened the link
  • What persists
  • Conclusion

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