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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Communal tensions : their economic and social background.

  • UPSC 1986
  • Religion and Society in India

A riot has a trigger; communal tension has a background. The question asks for the second — the slow work by which religious communities in India became political categories and were then placed in competition for the same scarce opportunities. That process is datable, and belongs to the colonial century rather than to antiquity.

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  • How religious communities became political categories
  • Economic differentiation under colonial rule
  • Partition and the post-colonial inheritance
  • Conclusion

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