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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Peasant Society.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

The concept of peasant society was built for pre-industrial Europe and Latin America and then imported into Indian sociology. The productive question for India is not what a peasant is in the abstract, but whether India still has a peasantry — and if so, what holds it together when agriculture no longer sustains it.

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  • The Indian peasantry is caste-embedded
  • Differentiation or reproduction?
  • Peasant identity outliving peasant agriculture
  • The de-peasantisation debate
  • Conclusion

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