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The idea of the village has been central throughout Indian history. Since colonial times, Indian villages have been pictured as “small republics” and as a relevant microcosm for understanding ...
5 lip 2015 · India is a land of villages. There are no fewer than six lakh villages in India. About 70 per cent people of India live in villages. So, it is rightly said that real India lives in...
Not only is an understanding of the village in history important from the point of view of interpreting the effects of development programmes and technological packages on rural areas, but also in conceptualizing new ways of 'doing' development.
the village was a central category in the nationalist imaginations and there was virtual agreement that it represented the core of the traditional social order of India, the attitudes of the three leaders towards village society varied considerably.
In the Mauryan period, the village was the basic unit of administration. Villagers used to organize works of public utility and recreation, settle disputes, and act as trustees for the property of minors. But they had not yet evolved regular councils.
22 gru 2015 · The article looks at settlement geography and history, includes sociological aspects and perspectives on everyday life while examining the usability of historical directories and databases.
studies focussing on the social and cultural life of the village in India. Most of these studies were published during the decades 1950s and 1960s. These “village studies” played an important role in giving respectability to the disciplines of sociology and social anthropology in India.
