UPSC Mains Sociology Paper Topic : Caste System

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Caste System

Q. Write a note on Ghurye’s conception of caste in India. 10 Marks/2019

Q. What is caste politics? Substantiate your answer with examples of how identities are defined by caste dynamics. 20 Marks/2019

Q. What do you understand by discrete castes and muddled hierarchies? Substantiate your answer with suitable illustrations. 20 Marks/2018

Q. Has caste system hindered democracy and adult franchise in India. Discuss. 20 Marks/2018

Q.Which is more significant, the principal of ‘hierarchy’ or the principal of difference; in intercaste relations in the present day? 10 Marks/2017

Q.How have the struggles against untouchability changed their forms and perspective from Gandhian to Ambedkarite positions? 10 Marks/2017

Q.What are the changes in the cultural and structural aspects of the caste system since independence? 10 Marks/2017

Q. How has B.R. Ambedkar identified the features of caste system? How is it different from the mainstream treatment of caste features? 20 Marks/2016

Q. Discuss Andre Beteille’s account of the relationship between caste, class and power as a change from symmetrical to asymmetrical one. 20 Marks/2016

Q. Louis Dumont’s perspective on Indian caste system. 10 Marks/2015

Q. How far Gandhi ji was trusted by the untouchables. 10 Marks/2015

Q. Is caste system changing, weakening or disintegrating in India? 20 Marks/2015

Q. How far Srinivas’s Sanskritization is modernizing force or traditionalizing force in understanding the changes in caste system? 10 Marks/2015

Q. Discuss B.R. Ambedkar as a wise democrat. 20 Marks/2015