UPSC Mains 2015 · GS I · Q13 · 12.5 marks · 200 words

Debate the issue of whether and how contemporary movements for assertion of Dalit identity work towards annihilation of caste.

हिन्दी में

इस मुद्दे पर चर्चा कीजिये कि क्या और किस प्रकार दलित प्राख्यान (ऐसर्शन) के समकालीन आंदोलन जाति विनाश की दिशा में कार्य करते हैं।

Caste Social Empowerment

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Toppers wrote this one in a test series: “The dichotomy in public and private life in Indian society acts as a major barrier to the annihilation of caste. Justify.”

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Opening · a constitutional or legal provision

Untouchability was abolished by the Indian constitution in 1950.

Body · points and prose

However, untouchability and caste discrimination still exists in covert forms due to dichotomy in public and private life in Indian society.

In public life, a person may treat a Dalit equally as others. But in cases of marriage, caste becomes an issue.

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Close · a summary

Thus, unless this dichotomy between public and private life is resolved, caste discrimination will continue to be a problem for Indian society.

5 more toppers’ answers to this question, part by part, and how they all approached it: open the question.

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Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Main) Examination 2015, General Studies Paper I, Q13. The paper on upsc.gov.in. Themes and links to toppers’ answers are by UPSC Grade, not by UPSC.