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What is the idea of ‘Indian village’? Explain.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

The "Indian village" is not a settlement but a proposition about India — that the country's essential character lies in its countryside. The village was imagined before it was studied, and the idea has passed through four phases: colonial construct, nationalist ideal, sociological controversy, and administrative-cum-identity category.

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  • The colonial-administrative construct
  • The nationalist ideal and its Dalit rebuttal
  • The sociological demolition and rescue
  • The contemporary idea
  • Conclusion

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