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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Feudalism and Semi Feudalism.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

Feudalism and semi-feudalism are both attempts to name the production relations that block agrarian transformation, but they belong to different debates. Feudalism is a historical mode of production borrowed from European medieval history and contested for India; semi-feudalism is a twentieth-century model of how backwardness is reproduced inside a formally free economy.

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  • Feudalism: the classic type
  • The Indian feudalism debate
  • Semi-feudalism
  • The modes of production debate
  • Conclusion

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