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He considered social institutions like caste , religion were
more important than villages. Villages may live or die , people
may move from one village to another but their social
institutions follow tem and go with them wherever they go.
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.
Village studies thus provided a new role for a discipline like
sociology in the context of an Independent nation.
