Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer
“The internal morphology of rural settlements reflects both historical power structures and contemporary economic dynamics.” Examine with reference to Indian examples.
The village is not an accidental scatter of houses; it is a social structure drawn on the ground. From C. A. Doxiadis's ekistics, which reads any settlement as a grammar of core, secondary sectors and circulation, to the village studies of M. N. Srinivas, Louis Dumont and McKim Marriott, which read the same ground as…
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- I. Historical power structures drawn on the ground
- 1. Caste-based spatial segregation
- 2. Land tenure systems and settlement form
- 3. Jajmani and occupational lanes
- 4. The ekistics reading of the traditional village
- II. Contemporary economic dynamics redrawing the village
- …and 8 more sections, with a conclusion
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