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Explain the emergence of middle class in agrarian society in India. What have been the socio-structural implications of the emergence of this middle class?

  • UPSC 2026
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

The Indian middle class is usually written as urban and colonial in origin — B. B. Mishra traced it to law and administration rather than to industry. A second middle class grew later and in the countryside, out of land rather than office: smaller in income, larger in political consequence.

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  • How an agrarian middle class emerged
  • Socio-structural implications
  • Patronage gives way to contract
  • Caste and class converge, and Sanskritisation gives way to mobilisation
  • A new agrarian assertion
  • Inequality deepens beneath it
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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