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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Panchayati Raj and rural leadership.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Politics and Society in India

Panchayati Raj did not create rural leadership; it institutionalised it. By attaching a statutory office, a budget and a fixed term to village authority, it changed who could lead, how they were chosen and what they were answerable for. B. R. Ambedkar's warning in the Constituent Assembly that the village was a sink of localism…

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  • Statutory office replaces informal authority
  • Election, faction and party
  • Reservation and the widening of leadership
  • A new rung in the political ladder
  • Conclusion

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