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‘The transfer of land from cultivating to the non-cultivating owners is bringing about transformation in Indian society.’ Justify your answer by giving suitable illustrations.
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- Rural and Agrarian Social Structure
Daniel Thorner, in The Agrarian Prospect in India (1956), sorted agrarian India by the source of income: maliks who live off property rights, kisans who till their own land, mazdoors who sell labour. The statement describes the malik category expanding again. The claim is justified, and what it transforms is social structure, not merely the…
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