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Write short note : Agrarian class structure in India.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

There is no agreed map of Indian agrarian classes, and the disagreement is itself the subject. Rival schemes divide the same population differently because each chooses a different criterion — source of income, rights in land, labour hired or sold, or simply acreage. D. N. Dhanagare's caution holds: agrarian relations are so regionally diverse that…

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  • The competing classifications
  • Why size alone misleads
  • Béteille's objection
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