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Evaluate the role of state in social and economic reconstruction of Indian Society since Independence.

  • UPSC 1994, 1988
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Independent India assigned its state an extraordinary double task: to build an industrial economy and simultaneously to dismantle a ritually ordered social hierarchy. Evaluating that record requires judging both assignments separately, because the state's performance on them has been markedly uneven.

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  • Four phases of the developmental state
  • Economic reconstruction: capability built, employment not
  • Social reconstruction: recognition delivered, redistribution withheld
  • The evaluative debate
  • Conclusion

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