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The changing life in Indian village marked best the impact of the British administration on the Indian people. Explain, identifying the process and the extent of the change.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

Since the overwhelming majority of Indians lived in villages under colonial rule, no measure of British administration's real effect on Indian society can bypass the transformation — or erosion — of village life itself.

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  • The Pre-Colonial Village as Baseline
  • Land Revenue Settlements as the Primary Instrument of Change
  • The New Judiciary and the Erosion of Customary Order
  • Commercial Integration, Deindustrialisation, and Communications
  • Depth and Unevenness of the Transformation

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