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Write short note on the following with a sociological perspective : Limitations of the dialectical approach to the study of Indian society.

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  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

The dialectical approach — historical materialism applied to India, most consistently by A. R. Desai — asks a question the textual and village traditions avoid: who owns, and who appropriates. Its limitations are not incidental lapses. They follow from the very assumption that gives it its power, namely that property relations are the axis on…

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  • Economic determinism
  • The autonomy of caste
  • Empirical thinness and a polarisation that did not occur
  • The view from below
  • Categories that do not travel
  • Conclusion

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