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With reference to their understanding of the Indian village, compare the perspectives of M. N. Srinivas and S. C. Dube.

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  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

M. N. Srinivas and S. C. Dube belong to the same moment: both published in 1955, Srinivas editing India's Villages and Dube publishing Indian Village on Shamirpet, and both worked within structural-functionalism against G. S. Ghurye's book view. The contrast between them is therefore one of emphasis and of field site, not of paradigm —…

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