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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Faction in rural life.

  • UPSC 1995
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

A faction is a loose, leader-centred group that forms to compete for advantage and dissolves when the contest ends — known locally as a dhada, a gut or simply a "party". Village studies of the 1950s and 1960s found factions, not caste alone, to be the working unit of rural politics.

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  • Factions, caste and class
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