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Change and Development in Rural Society

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 12 · Sociology

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Key Topics to Revise

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Nature and Characteristics of Rural Society

  • 69% of India's population lives in rural areas according to 2011 Census
  • Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for majority of rural population
  • Agricultural land is the most important productive resource and form of property
2

Land Distribution and Agrarian Structure

  • Highly unequal distribution of landholdings among rural households
  • 40-50% of families in some areas don't own any land at all
  • Women usually excluded from land ownership due to patrilineal kinship system
3

Colonial Impact on Agrarian Structure

  • Pre-colonial period: Cultivating castes worked land but didn't directly own it
  • Local kings/zamindars controlled land and extracted produce from cultivators
  • British granted property rights to zamindars under zamindari system
4

Post-Independence Land Reforms

  • Land reforms aimed at agrarian structure transformation and agricultural progress
  • Three major categories: Abolition of zamindari, Tenancy regulation, Land ceiling acts
  • Zamindari abolition most effective - removed intermediaries and weakened zamindar power

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The pattern of land distributionA term coined by MA government program of agricultural modernizationPostThe shift from subsistence farming (growing

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