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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Probe the social consequences of the land ceiling legislation in any one of the Indian States and state the major difficulties in its implementation.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

West Bengal is the case worth probing, because it is the one State where ceiling redistribution was carried far enough to change rural social relations, and because it shows what the condition for success was: not a better statute, but an organised party and a functioning panchayat.

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  • The legislative frame
  • Social consequences
  • The limits
  • Major difficulties in implementation
  • Conclusion

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