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What, according to André Béteille, are the bases of agrarian class structure in India? Analyse.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Social Classes in India

André Béteille rejects holding size as the basis of agrarian class. He builds the structure on three relations to land — ownership, control and use — because in modern agriculture title, decision and labour come apart and lodge in different persons.

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