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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Examine the historical roots of Indian society and identify the factors of continuity and change in it.

  • UPSC 1988
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

To speak of "roots" is to ask how India's institutions were historically formed, not to assume they have stood still. The examination is best made institution by institution, because continuity and change are distributed unevenly across them — deep in marriage, shallow in occupation.

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  • Caste
  • Family and kinship
  • Religion
  • The village and the agrarian order
  • The polity
  • Conclusion

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