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Critically examine Dube’s contributions to the study of Indian villages.

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  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

S. C. Dube's Indian Village (1955), a study of Shamirpet in Telangana, was the first full-length monograph on a single village by an Indian sociologist — described by a later edition as the first book on a single village in post-war South Asia. His importance lies less in a signature concept than in two moves:…

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  • What Dube established
  • The evaluation of planned development
  • The critique
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