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Discuss the paradoxical nature of change in contemporary Indian society. Describe the factors responsible for it.

  • UPSC 2005, 1993
  • Visions of Social Change in India

The paradox is not that a modern sector coexists with a backward one — that is mere unevenness. It is that the same processes produce opposite outcomes at once: growth that does not feed, schooling that does not employ, legal equality alongside atrocity. Yogendra Singh (Modernisation of Indian Tradition, 1973) named the condition — structural…

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