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Describe the traditional power structure in rural India. Discuss the factors that have contributed to its changing pattern in recent years.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Politics and Society in India

In village India power was never a separate sphere. Land, ritual rank and the right to command converged in the same households, so that economic dependence produced political obedience without visible coercion. Seven decades of democracy have prised these elements apart — unevenly, and without abolishing inequality.

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  • The architecture of traditional power
  • Factors behind the changing pattern
  • What has changed, and what has not
  • Conclusion

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