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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : The emerging pattern of rural leadership.

  • UPSC 1986
  • Politics and Society in India

Rural leadership in India has changed less in its personnel than in its basis, style and function. The hereditary arbitrator who settled disputes by consensus has given way to a competitive leader who builds temporary followings and whose main skill is working the state machinery on his village's behalf.

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  • From ascription to achievement
  • From consensus to competition and faction
  • From corporate groups to action-sets
  • From arbitrator to broker
  • Conclusion

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