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Discuss the changing interface between state and civil society in post-independent India.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Politics and Society

The Indian state and civil society have moved through phases of partnership, confrontation, collaboration and control. Antonio Gramsci argued that state and civil society are intertwined, together forming what he called the "integral state", rather than being separate spheres. In India, the balance between them has shifted with the development model and the political climate.

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