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How has the process of social and cultural change been examined by Indian sociologists? Discuss their approaches.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Visions of Social Change in India

Indian sociology has never studied change from a single vantage point. Its history is a sequence of methodological quarrels — over whether India is best read from its texts, its villages, its class structure, its value system or from below. Each approach opened one field of vision and closed another, and the discipline advanced by…

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