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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Modes of contents of expression of Dalit consciousness.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Caste System

Dalit consciousness is expressed less through formal organisation than through a repertoire of cultural, religious, spatial and political forms. The contents carried by these modes are strikingly consistent: lived experience against textual authority, dignity against pity, counter-history against Brahmanical cosmology.

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  • Literature and the autobiography
  • Religion and conversion
  • Symbol, space and commemoration
  • Political and everyday forms
  • Conclusion

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