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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Do you think that forced displacement of labourers has caused their deprivation and resultant inequalities during the recent past years? Elaborate.

  • UPSC 2025
  • 20 marks
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

Yes — but the causation runs in a loop. Labour in India is displaced because it is already deprived, and every displacement deepens the deprivation that made it movable. What marks the recent past is that the coercion is rarely a bulldozer at the door; it is the destruction of the conditions under which staying…

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  • The recent episodes of forced movement
  • What makes it "forced"
  • The deprivation chain
  • How a spatial event becomes durable inequality
  • Conclusion

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