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“The impact of government on the people meant essentially the impact of government on the village.” Comment.

  • UPSC 1988
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

Since well over nine-tenths of colonial India's population was rural, virtually every major policy of the colonial state ultimately registered its effect at the level of the village, the basic unit of Indian social and economic life.

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  • Revenue and Tenurial Restructuring
  • Destruction of the Village Craft Economy
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