Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Do you agree that the agrarian class structure in India is changing? Justify your answer with illustrations.
- UPSC 2022
- Rural and Agrarian Social Structure
Yes — but the change must be specified, not asserted. The baseline is Daniel Thorner's scheme in The Agrarian Prospect in India (1956), which sorted the agrarian population by income type, rights in land and fieldwork done into maliks (rent-receiving proprietors), kisans (working peasants) and mazdoors (labourers). Measured against that baseline, three of the tiers…
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- Directions in which the structure has moved
- The categories have blurred
- New entrants and the counter-case
- Conclusion
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