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Discuss the social consequences of economic development in India. Do you share the view that it has increased economic inequality and failed to promote social justice?

  • UPSC 1984
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Planned development after 1947 and market-led growth after 1991 have transformed India's social structure rather than merely its output. The sociological question is whether that transformation redistributed opportunity or concentrated it. The evidence supports a divided verdict: inequality has clearly widened, while social justice has advanced unevenly rather than failed outright.

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  • Social consequences: new structures, new actors
  • Has inequality increased?
  • Has social justice failed?
  • Conclusion

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