Introduction

Villages in India

  1. Static view of village
  1. Self sufficient in Nature
  2. Changes in the macro structure rarely changed the micro structure
  3. Individual get Identity from village along with the Caste and Religion
  4. Led to the lack of pan Indian consciousness
  5. Village was patriarchy in Nature also due to the active disengagement of women from village activities
  6. Romanticised notion of village
  7. Village reproduction of itself → Father trasfer skill to son, Authority remain to the one dominant caste and family
  8. Village isolated from the other factors in society
  9. Lack of Exogenic agency of Change
  10. Village stability along with village stagnation
  11. Jajmani System
  1. This view justified the colonial rule to transfer the modern values and mode of production

Colonial view and influence on the Nationalist

Marxist view on Village

  1. Needs of the village people not evolving thus leading to stagnation of
  2. Not moving new forces of production
  3. Marx→ Asiatic mode of production
  4. Supirior mode of production not taking place
  5. Indian Society not fitting into the Evolutionary mode of progress
  6. Colonization is going to change that
  7. They have put path of change

Nationalist view on Village

Criticism of this view

Criticism

  1. Oscar Lewis → Conflict exist in the Society