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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Market economy and Agrarian social structure.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

Karl Polanyi (The Great Transformation, 1944) argued that land, labour and money are fictitious commodities: treating them as things produced for sale disembeds the economy from society and forces social structure to reorganise around price. Indian agrarian history is a long illustration. Each extension of the market — colonial commercialisation, the Green Revolution, liberalisation —…

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  • Colonial commercialisation
  • The Green Revolution: land as capital, labour as wage labour
  • After 1991
  • The theoretical debate
  • Conclusion

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