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Write short note: Class-conflict in the agrarian society.

  • UPSC 1986
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

Karl Marx doubted that peasants could become a class for itself: in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852) he likened smallholders to potatoes in a sack — similarly placed but not connected, and therefore represented rather than self-organising. Indian agrarian conflict is the test of that scepticism, and the answer it returns is that…

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