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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

The problem of displacement is inherent in the idea of development. Analyse the statement critically.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

The statement asserts a necessary link: not that development has displaced people, which is beyond dispute, but that it cannot do otherwise. That holds of a particular accumulation-driven model, not of development as such — though India's record sits close to the claim.

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  • The case for inherence
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