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Is Indian peasant society a non-modern society? Evaluate with suitable examples in support of your answer.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

The question assumes that "modern" and "non-modern" are exhaustive alternatives. Testing Indian evidence against the classical criteria of modernity shows that the Indian peasantry satisfies neither description, and that the dichotomy itself is the weakest part of the question.

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  • What "non-modern" would mean
  • The case for calling it non-modern
  • The case against
  • Rejecting the dichotomy
  • Conclusion

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