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“The decade of 1950 was the golden period of village studies in Indian Sociology.” Explain the statement.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

The description marks a real cluster. Within a single decade Indian sociology acquired its characteristic method, its subject matter and its first home-grown concepts, almost all of them out of village fieldwork. Explaining the statement means showing why that decade and no other produced this, and then asking whether "golden" survives scrutiny.

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What the full answer covers

  • Why that decade: a convergence
  • The studies and what each found
  • The real achievement: from book view to field view
  • Why "golden" needs qualification
  • Conclusion

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