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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Class within Caste and Caste within Class.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Stratification and Mobility

The paired phrase rejects two simple pictures: that India is moving from caste to class, and that caste is an unchanging hierarchy. Caste and class are nested. Each caste contains economic classes, and each class contains caste distinctions. The formulation comes from post-independence village studies and from the debate over whether development would dissolve caste…

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