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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Scheduled caste elites.

  • UPSC 1984
  • Caste System

The Scheduled Caste elite is an unusual category: an advantaged stratum created not by tradition but by public policy. Where Vilfredo Pareto and Gaetano Mosca explained elites by capacity or organisation, this one was manufactured by constitutional guarantee — an origin that shapes its predicament.

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  • How it was formed
  • Its sociological character
  • The sub-classification debate
  • Does the elite advance or blunt assertion?
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