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Post-American Social Class

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Going back to the colonial period, India’s social structure was a bipolar one: the elite and the mass. The elite consisted of the educated ‘upper cream’ that consisted of mass leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru and Jinnah, whose manner of activism was through petitions and demanding better political representation. On the other hand, the masses were left unrepresented and did not play a crucial role in the politics of the nation. The post-colonial Nehruvian Social Welfare period saw the rise of the classes. The classes were mainly state-dependant for employment and this period saw the emergence of the middle-class. This emerging middle-class demanded for their basic rights from the government: roti, kapdha aur makan (food, cloth and house). During
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