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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Is caste system changing, weakening or disintegrating in India?

  • UPSC 2015
  • Caste System

The question offers three verbs that are ordinarily treated as synonyms and are not. Changing asserts that caste's form has altered; weakening that its grip on conduct has loosened; disintegrating that it is ceasing to exist as a system at all. Each is a separate claim with a separate test. The evidence answers them differently:…

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  • The three claims and the tests they must pass
  • Caste is changing — the best supported of the three
  • Caste is weakening — but only along one dimension
  • Caste is not disintegrating
  • Conclusion

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