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“Notwithstanding the quest for modernity and the antagonism that guided Nehru’s attitude towards the inequalities inherent in the social structure in rural India, the Congress Party did not carry out a concerted campaign against discrimination based on caste. Nehru’s own perception was that industrial growth was bound to break the stranglehold of this feudal remnant. This, however, did not happen in India.” Examine.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Caste and Ethnicity after 1947

Jawaharlal Nehru's modernizing vision assumed caste was a "feudal remnant" that planned industrialization would dissolve, an assumption Congress rarely tested through direct political action and history did not vindicate.

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  • Nehru's Ideological Position on Caste
  • Why Congress Did Not Campaign Directly Against Caste
  • Land Reform as the Test Case
  • Why Industrial Growth Did Not Dissolve Caste

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