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Discuss the emerging forms of ‘inequalities’ and ‘acute poverty’ as major challenges of social transformation in India.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

Yogendra Singh, in Modernization of Indian Tradition (1973), argued that change in India is uneven: modernity is added to tradition rather than replacing it, so each advance breeds new hierarchies alongside the old. India illustrates the point sharply today. Multidimensional poverty falls fast while wealth concentration reaches its highest recorded level — the inequalities that…

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  • Emerging forms of inequality
  • Acute poverty: the residual that growth does not reach
  • Why this challenges social transformation
  • Conclusion

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