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Discuss the functions of traditional economic institutions in India. Analyse the factors responsible for change in them.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

India's traditional economy was organised not through markets but through institutions that were simultaneously economic, ritual and political. Each performed genuine integrative work, and each did so by fixing people in an unequal place. Understanding them requires holding both faces together, and then asking what dissolved them.

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  • The institutions and their functions
  • Factors responsible for change
  • Adaptation rather than disappearance
  • Conclusion

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