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Write short note: Industrial class structure in India.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Social Classes in India

India's industrial classes are a colonial creation. Before the nineteenth century there were working people but no working class, because there was no factory system. British capital, by building mills, mines, railways and an administration, produced simultaneously an entrepreneurial class, a salaried bureaucracy and a wage-earning proletariat.

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  • Colonial origins
  • The strata
  • The class line within labour
  • The rural link
  • Conclusion

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