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Write short note on the following with a sociological perspective: Changing rural power structure.

  • UPSC 2012
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

Power in the Indian village was once fused: land, ritual rank and political authority converged in one group. André Béteille called this cumulative inequality in Caste, Class and Power (1965), his study of Sripuram. Its dispersal — not its disappearance — is the story of the last seven decades.

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  • The traditional structure
  • What changed
  • Continuities and limits
  • Conclusion

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