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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Examine the colonial policy of segregation of tribes under the Government of India Act, 1935.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Tribal Communities in India

The Government of India Act, 1935 did not invent tribal segregation; it gave a sixty-year administrative habit its final legal form. Section 91 let the Crown declare Excluded Areas and Partially Excluded Areas; Section 92 placed them outside the ordinary reach of the new legislatures. Whether that was protection or insulation is the question, because…

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  • The lineage of exclusion
  • The architecture of segregation
  • Reading one: protection
  • Reading two: insulation and divide and rule
  • A weighed judgement
  • The afterlife
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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