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“The multitude of newly independent countries came to be known as the ‘Third World’, belonging neither to the First World of capitalist democracies, nor the Communist Second World.”

  • UPSC 2020
  • The World after World War II

The statement is a definition presented as a fact — and the task is to test how stable a category "Third World" actually was.

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What the full answer covers

  • Coining the Term: The Third Estate Analogy
  • The Tripartite Logic of the Statement
  • What the "Neither-Nor" Definition Concealed: Internal Diversity
  • The Shared Thread Beneath the Diversity
  • Critical Examination: Was "Third World" a Coherent Category?

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