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Highlight the significant features of A.R Desai’s ‘Dialectical Perspective’ to study Indian Society.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Of the first generation of Indian sociologists, A. R. Desai alone applied historical-dialectical materialism consistently and for a lifetime. Trained under G. S. Ghurye but politically formed in the All India Kisan Sabha and the communist and revolutionary-socialist left, he read Indian society not as a civilisation to be interpreted but as a socio-economic formation…

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  • Historical specification rather than universal stages
  • Property relations as the axial principle
  • Totality without crude reduction
  • Contradiction, not equilibrium, as the engine
  • A committed sociology of demystification
  • Limitations
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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