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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Assess the impact of market economy on the traditional rural economic structure.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

The traditional rural economy rested on hereditary service, payment in grain, inalienable land and credit given by a patron who was also a superior. Market exchange has dismantled each of these supports. Assessing the impact means asking not only how much changed, but which stratum captured the change.

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  • The service order and its collapse
  • Land becomes a commodity, and the peasantry differentiates
  • The artisan's exit
  • Credit: a circle, not a line
  • Markets, regulation and the new frontier
  • Assessment: who gained
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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