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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

What are the factors accounting for the resurgence of ethnic identity movements in India?

  • UPSC 2016
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

The word resurgence carries the puzzle. Modernisation theory expected literacy, markets, mobility and a developmental state to dissolve ascriptive attachments into class and citizenship. India has had all four in growing measure and has more ethnic assertion, not less. The factors are best set out as an explanation of that paradox.

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  • Modernisation generates ethnicity rather than dissolving it
  • The state as a manufacturer of ethnicity
  • Politics, elites and globalisation
  • Conclusion

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