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‘Textual perspective is important in understanding of Indian Social System.’ Discuss.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

The textual perspective, or "book view", reads Indian social organisation out of its classical literature — Vedas, Smritis, Puranas and the epics. G. S. Ghurye built Indian sociology on the premise that the normative order encoded in these texts is what behaviour orbits. The claim holds, but only if "important" means necessary rather than sufficient.

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