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Industrialisation and Caste

  • UPSC 1988
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Industrialisation was expected to be caste's solvent: factory work is contractual, anonymous and rewarded by output, and Talcott Parsons' pattern variables place it squarely on the side of universalism and achievement. Indian evidence shows something less tidy — industry corroded caste's ritual and occupational scaffolding while absorbing caste as network and as class location.

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