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Describe the process of social mobility among lower castes and discuss the role of the Backward Classes Movement in strengthening this process.

  • UPSC 2005
  • Social Movements in Modern India

Caste was long theorised as a closed system permitting no individual movement. Empirical Indian sociology showed otherwise: mobility occurs, but historically as group mobility over generations, not individual achievement. The question therefore has two parts — how lower castes have moved, and how the Backward Classes movement converted that slow, positional drift into a collective…

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  • The process of mobility
  • How the Backward Classes movement strengthened it
  • Assessment
  • Conclusion

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