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The changing life in Indian village marked best the impact of the British administration on the Indian people. Explain, identifying the process and the extent of the change.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

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Since the overwhelming majority of Indians lived in villages under colonial rule, no measure of British administration's real effect on Indian society can bypass the transformation — or erosion — of village life itself.

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  • The Pre-Colonial Village as Baseline
  • Land Revenue Settlements as the Primary Instrument of Change
  • The New Judiciary and the Erosion of Customary Order
  • Commercial Integration, Deindustrialisation, and Communications
  • Depth and Unevenness of the Transformation
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