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Examine the features of continuity and change of Indian society in historical perspective.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Read historically, Indian society yields neither the changeless order of the Orientalists nor a clean sequence of ruptures. What recurs is a distinctive pattern: the organising principle survives while the form in which it is expressed is repeatedly rebuilt. Examining that pattern epoch by epoch is the only way to separate genuine features from appearances.

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  • Ancient: from fluid ranking to birth-ascribed order
  • Challenge, absorption and composite culture
  • Colonial hardening and constitutional rupture
  • The features extracted
  • Conclusion

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