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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Slums are scars on the social fabric. How can these scars be removed?

  • UPSC 1999
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

The metaphor of the scar is worth pausing over, because it prescribes its own cure. A scar is disfigurement to be excised, and for four decades that reading licensed the bulldozer. A. R. Desai argued the opposite in Slums and Urbanization (1970): the slum is not a blemish on the city but the city's own…

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  • Why the metaphor misleads
  • What has already failed, and why
  • Removing the scar: measures the evidence supports
  • Conclusion

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