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Is industrial development in India a bane or a boon to agrarian class structure? Substantiate your answer with suitable examples.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 20 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

The question admits no single answer, because the agrarian structure is not one class. Industrial development has been a boon to those with something to sell — surplus peasants, rural entrepreneurs, mobile youth — and a bane to those with only land or only labour: the small owner in an acquisition zone, the landless Dalit…

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