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Discuss the role of Technology in agrarian change in India.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

Technology in agriculture is never neutral: it enters an existing structure of land, caste and credit and is absorbed on that structure's terms. Indian sociology's finding is not that technology transformed the village, but that who already owned land determined what technology did.

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  • The sequence of technologies
  • Sociological consequences
  • Ecology and distress
  • Theoretical readings
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