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Write short note on New rural elite and leadership.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Politics and Society in India

An elite, in Vilfredo Pareto's sense, is the minority commanding a disproportionate share of valued resources. Rural India's elite has been replaced rather than abolished: the upper-caste landlord-patron has given way to a broader, more heterogeneous group whose power rests on marketable surplus, public office and access to the state.

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  • Who the new rural elite are
  • Old and new elite contrasted
  • What the new elite commands
  • Limits of the new elite
  • Conclusion

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