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Delineate the striking features of agricultural and craft production during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in India. How did they impact the social fabric of the country?

  • UPSC 2008
  • Economy and Society in the 16th and 17th Centuries

The economy of sixteenth and seventeenth century India rested on two mutually reinforcing productive systems — a remarkably diversified agriculture and an equally diversified craft sector — whose organization did as much to shape Indian society as it did the economy.

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