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“Social change can be brought about through development.” Illustrate from the contemporary situation of India.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Development is planned and desired change; the claim in the statement is stronger — that directed development alters not merely aggregates but social structure: who marries whom, who works where, who may speak in the gram sabha. Contemporary India offers evidence both for the claim and against its optimism.

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  • Development as a solvent of ascriptive structure
  • But development also reorganises hierarchy
  • Conclusion

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