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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Purushartha.

  • UPSC 1989
  • Caste System

Purushartha means the ends proper to a human being — the goals classical Hindu thought recognises as legitimate objects of striving. Four are named: dharma, artha, kama and moksha. Sociologically the scheme matters less as philosophy than as a value-system that ranks motives, subordinating wealth and desire to duty and duty itself to release.

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  • The four ends
  • Articulation with ashrama and varna
  • The sociological readings
  • Bearing on caste, and the limits
  • Conclusion

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