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Write short note : Political power and rural development in India.

  • UPSC 1990
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

Rural development in India is delivered through a local social structure that is itself deeply unequal. Resources enter the village through people who already hold land, numbers and office, so the distribution of political power decides the distribution of development — a sociological point repeatedly confirmed by field studies of India's programmes.

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  • Power capturing development
  • Patronage, vote banks and implementation
  • Decentralisation as the corrective
  • Conclusion

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