Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Bring out various factors responsible for declining of village industries in India.
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- Rural and Agrarian Social Structure
Indian industry did not grow out of Indian handicraft; it was inserted alongside its destruction. Village industry — weaving, pottery, metalwork, oil-pressing, leather — declined through identifiable historical, economic, social and institutional causes, and each cost the village a livelihood and a caste its occupational basis.
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- Historical: colonial de-industrialisation
- Structural-economic
- Social: the caste basis of artisanal work
- Institutional and policy
- Consequences and counterpoint
- Conclusion
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