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Comment on the factors responsible for the growth and consolidation of middle level peasantry in rural India. How is it related to capitalism in Indian agriculture?

  • UPSC 2011
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

The middle peasant is the cultivator who owns a viable holding, works it mainly with family labour, and both buys and sells in the market — Daniel Thorner's kisan, lying between the rent-receiving malik and the wage-earning mazdoor. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin expected this stratum to dissolve into rich and poor as capitalism advanced; in India…

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  • Factors behind its growth and consolidation
  • Its relation to capitalism in Indian agriculture
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