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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Explain different forms of untouchability in India.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Caste System

Untouchability is the social form taken by what Célestin Bouglé called repulsion — the principle that, alongside hereditary specialisation and hierarchy, keeps caste groups apart. Explaining its forms therefore means classifying the domains in which separation is enforced and naming the mechanism that reproduces each, rather than listing incidents.

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  • A typology of forms
  • The mechanisms beneath the types
  • Why some forms yield faster than others
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