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Write short note on the following in not more than 150 words. Your answer should have a sociological perspective: Impact of Green Revolution on rural class structure.

  • UPSC 2011
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

Before the new technology, rural India was organised as a status hierarchy of land rights — what Daniel Thorner classified as maliks living off property, kisans cultivating, and mazdoors selling labour. The Green Revolution's decisive effect was to convert this hierarchy into a class structure defined by the ownership of means of production and the…

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  • Differentiation at the top
  • Proletarianisation at the base
  • The mode-of-production debate
  • Conclusion

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