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Describe the major aspects of traditional Hindu social organization. How far are they relevant for present day Indian society ?

  • UPSC 2006
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Pandharinath H. Prabhu, in Hindu Social Organization (1940), showed that the Hindu social order was not a collection of customs but a single scheme in which dharma — duty appropriate to one's birth-group and stage of life — coordinated the whole. Its relevance today is neither survival nor disappearance but uneven transformation, and must be…

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  • What survives with little change
  • What has been transformed rather than lost
  • What has been legislated against
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