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Identify different forms of inequalities associated with agrarian social structure in India.
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- Rural and Agrarian Social Structure
André Béteille, in Studies in Agrarian Social Structure (1974), insisted that the agrarian order be read along three separate axes — ownership, control and use of land — because title, decision and labour no longer lie in the same hands. Read with the caste–class–power framework of Caste, Class and Power (1965), Indian agrarian inequality is…
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- Inequality in the ownership of land
- Inequality between ownership and operational control
- Inequality in access to the means of production
- Inequality in labour relations and wages
- Caste, gender and region
- Conclusion
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