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Write short note: Role of Elite in social transformation.

  • UPSC 1987
  • Social Movements in Modern India

An elite is the small stratum that occupies the command positions of a society's key institutions — for C. Wright Mills, those "who make decisions having major consequences". Elite theory asks whether such minorities drive transformation or merely manage it. The Indian record answers: elites have been indispensable initiators, but transformation completed only where mass…

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