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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Emergence of Dalit Consciousness.

  • UPSC 2002
  • Caste System

Dalit consciousness is the shift from enduring untouchability as fate to naming it as injustice — a stigmatised status group acquiring organisation, an ideology and a self-chosen name. Its emergence can be dated and phased.

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  • The counter-history, 1870s–1920s
  • From reform to rights, 1920s–1956
  • Assertion and the name, 1970s onward
  • Why it emerged when it did
  • Conclusion

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