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‘Institutionalized inequality in India has its cultural and economic coordinates’. Discuss.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Caste System

Inequality in India is institutionalised in the strict sense: it is not an outcome of individual failure but a durable arrangement reproduced by rules, beliefs and property relations. The proposition is that it is fixed by two coordinates — a cultural axis of ritual rank and a material axis of ownership. The argument holds, provided…

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  • The cultural coordinate
  • The economic coordinate
  • How the coordinates work together
  • Which coordinate does more work?
  • Conclusion

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