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Explain how emerging rural-urban nexuses are reshaping the character of Indian political elite and functioning of political institutions.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Politics and Society in India

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India's politics is no longer organised around a rural mass and an urban governing class. Land, labour, money and kinship move continuously between village and town, and the elite straddling this traffic has become the pivot of Indian politics. The nexus, not the city or the village alone, is where power is assembled.

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  • The nexus and how it is built
  • The elite this produces
  • Consequences for political institutions
  • Conclusion
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