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Comment: Theory of circulation of elites.

  • UPSC 1992
  • 20 marks
  • Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics

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The circulation of elites is Vilfredo Pareto's account of political change, set out in the Trattato di sociologia generale (1916; English The Mind and Society, 1935). Its claim is that ruling minorities never vanish, they only replace one another, so history is a graveyard of aristocracies. Written against Marx, it explains change without promising mass…

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