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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Social significance of Grihasthasrama.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Of the four ashramas (brahmacharya, grihastha, vanaprastha, sannyasa) only the second produces anything. The Dharmashastra texts say so themselves, ranking the householder highest because the other three are fed from his hearth. It is thus not one stage among four but the stage that underwrites the scheme.

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  • Why the householder carries the system
  • The sociological reading
  • The limits of the ideal
  • The householder stage today
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