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Village India, Urbanisation & Social Change Questions in UPSC Anthropology Optional Mains
The Indian village as a social system — its inter-village linkages and land tenure, and the pressures of urbanisation, migration, market integration and globalisation on rural life.
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Paper II 5 — Indian Village, Linkages, Urbanisation and Globalisation
All year-wise Village India, Urbanisation & Social Change questions
2026
Critically examine the salience of F. G. Bailey's study on Bisipara village of Odisha.
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2025
"The village was not merely a place where people lived; it had a design in which were reflected the basic values of Indian civilization." Who said this? Elaborate.
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2024
Digitisation of rural economy
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2024
Compare and contrast the approaches of M.N. Srinivas and L.P. Vidyarthi to social change in village India.
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2023
“Sanskritization is a culture-bound concept.” Critically comment to assess the strength and limitation of this concept in developing a theoretical framework to study social change.
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2023
Village as little republic
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2022
Assess the contributions of S. C. Dube in Indian village studies.
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2022
“Globalisation, on one hand has provided opportunities and on the other hand thrown challenges to Indian villages.” Elucidate.
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2022
Westernisation and Modernisation
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2021
Factionalism and politics in rural India
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2021
Discuss the role of Panchayati Raj Institutions in transforming traditional power hierarchy in rural India.
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2021
Ethnic media and social awareness
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2021
Examine how structural transformation in economy is affecting traditional social relationships in agrarian society.
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2020
'Khap' Panchayat
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2020
Discuss the impact of Globalization on Indian villages.
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2020
Concept of Sanskritisation
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2020
Describe the different settlement patterns in rural India.
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2019
Describe the impact of industrialization on the economic and social aspects of India's villages.
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2019
Discuss how the elements of Little and Great Traditions combine in the emergence of social/political/religious movements, giving any one example to illustrate the issue.
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2019
Discuss the impact of media on the social life of Indian villages.
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2019
Panchayati Raj as a facilitator of social inclusion in rural society.
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2019
Identify the theoretical concepts that have emerged out of village studies in India.
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2018
Discuss the impact of market economy on rural villages.
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2018
Examine the colonial administrators' view that Indian villages can be considered as 'little republics'.
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2018
Agrarian social structure
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2018
The impact of Panchayati Raj institutions in rural areas
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2018
Modernization
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2017
Discuss the impact of media as an instrument of social change.
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2017
Give a critical evaluation of any one anthropological village study in India.
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2017
Discuss the impact of Panchayati Raj institution on the empowerment of rural women in India.
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2016
Describe the traditional patterns of settlement of Indian villages.
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2016
Explain Indian village as a social system with suitable examples.
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2016
Examine the nature of interplay of little and great traditions in the context of globalization.
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2015
Panchayati Raj Institutions and Social Change
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2015
Examine the social implications of media and communication technology.
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2015
Examine the contribution of village studies towards the understanding of Indian social system.
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2015
Discuss the impact of globalization on village economy in India.
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2014
Great tradition and Little tradition
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