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Examine the influence of industrialisation on caste.
- UPSC 2013
- 15 marks
- Industrialization and Urbanisation in India
Indian nationalists, reformers and Marxists alike expected the factory to be caste's solvent, since wage labour is contractual, anonymous and paid for output rather than birth. Examined against a century of Indian evidence, the claim survives only in part: industrialisation dismantled caste's occupational and ritual scaffolding while preserving, and in places sharpening, caste as a…
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- Where industry genuinely corroded caste
- What industry absorbed rather than abolished
- The decisive point: change of form, not disappearance
- Conclusion
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