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Write short note : Village studies in Indian Sociology.

  • UPSC 2008
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

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Village studies are best read as a sequence of changing questions rather than an accumulation of monographs. The Indian village has been, in turn, a colonial administrative construct, an ethnographic field site, an agrarian class structure, and lately a node in a circulating economy. Each phase was a reaction against the last.

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  • Phase I — The village imagined
  • Phase II — The village surveyed, then observed
  • Phase III — From community to class
  • Phase IV — Restudy and the post-liberalisation village
  • Conclusion
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