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Has ‘Green Revolution’ led to the formation of new power elite in rural India? Elaborate your answer.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 20 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

C. Wright Mills, in The Power Elite (1956), defined a power elite as a small, interlocking set of command positions whose occupants take the decisions that bind everyone else. The question is whether the new agricultural technology of the late 1960s created a rural class able to convert surplus into durable command. It largely did…

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  • The economic base: differentiation in the new technology belt
  • Converting surplus into social dominance
  • Converting dominance into political power
  • Why 'power elite' overstates the case
  • Conclusion

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