5.1 Indian Village: Significance of village study in India; Indian village as a social system; Traditional and changing patterns of settlement and inter-caste relations; Agrarian relations in Indian villages; Impact of globalization on Indian villages.

5.1 Indian Village:

• Significance of village study in India;
• Indian village as a social system;
• Traditional and changing patterns of settlement and inter-caste relations;
• Agrarian relations in Indian villages;
• Impact of globalization on Indian villages.

Previous Questions:

* Examine the contribution of village studies towards the understanding of Indian social system. (20Marks 2015)

* Discuss the impact of Globalization on Village economy in India. (15Marks 2015)

* Examine the impacts of green revolution on rural poor.(15Marks – 2013)

* How has globalization impacted agrarian relations in the last two decades? (20Marks – 2012)

* Indegenous knowledge. (12Marks – 2012)

* Discuss contributions of S.C. Dube towards understanding of the Indian village. (15 Marks — 2010)

* Describe the significant contributions of village studies in India to the understanding of social transformations. (60 Marks — 2009)

* Globalization and Indian Peasantry (S.N – 2OO4)

* Analyze how the village Studies contributed in understanding the Indian social system. (L.Q 2004)

* Green Revolution and its economic and ecological dimensions? (L.Q – 2002)

* Village Studies in India. (S.N – 2002)

* Explain criteria for dominant caste. How far is this concept still crucial to our understanding of India’s villages after implementation of Reservation in democratic institutions? Discuss. (L.Q -2001)

* Village Studies are crucial to the understanding of Indian life and culture. Who were the pioneer anthropologists to undertake such Studies? Give a comprehensive Picture of any one of them. (L.Q – 1998)

* Child mortality in rural areas (S.N – 1996)

* Forms of labour bondage in Indian Agriculture (S.N – 1991)

* What is the notion of folk urban continuum in the study of peasant society? Is it applicable to Indian conditions? (L.Q – 1991)

* Discuss the major concepts and approaches employed by the anthropologists in the study of peasant society in India. (L.Q -1990)

*Peasant Society (S.N – 1985)