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Write short notes with a sociological perspective: Significance of Village Studies in Indian Sociology.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

Before the 1950s Indian sociology largely read India off its texts. The significance of village studies lies less in what they revealed about villages than in what they did to the discipline: they changed its method, gave it its own concepts, forced a critical relation to imported theory, and tied it to the state. Their…

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  • They displaced Indology and installed the field view
  • They generated the discipline's home-grown concepts
  • They Indianised theory and opened the structural debate
  • They connected sociology to policy, then criticised it
  • Conclusion

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