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SRINIVAS’S VIEW AGAINST LOUIS DUMONT

He believed that village was a relevant social entity. He
criticised Dumont’s view of villages as unchanging, self-

sufficient little republics. Srinivas showed that the village
experienced considerable change. Villages were never
self- sufficeint and had been involved in various kinds of

economic , social and political relationships at the
regional level.

SIGNIFICANCE OF VILLAGES

• As a site of research village offered
many advantages to Indian

sociology.

• It offered rapid social change that

was taking place in the Indian
countryside as newly independent

nation began a programme of

planned development.