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Write a critique of the structural and functional perspective used by M.N. Srinivas in the understanding of Indian society.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

M. N. Srinivas gave Indian sociology its method and half its vocabulary: the field view, Sanskritisation, dominant caste, the vote bank. A critique must therefore be of a working paradigm, not a failed one. Its flaw is not inaccuracy but selection — a frame built to explain how the order holds together cannot easily ask…

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  • The conservative bias built into the frame
  • Conflict and exploitation read as function
  • The Marxist critique
  • The Dalit critique
  • Conceptual and methodological objections
  • Verdict
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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