Prelims · 6 Indian Society · 6.3 Indian sociology and thinkers

6.3.4 Village studies and tradition: S.C. Dube, Redfield, Marriott and Yogendra Singh's modernisation of tradition

The village studies of the 1950s replaced the image of the unchanging "village republic" with field data on caste, kinship and change; Redfield and Marriott explained how folk and classical traditions interact, and Yogendra Singh built a framework for how Indian tradition modernises.

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Key terms

  • village studies
  • S.C. Dube
  • Shamirpet
  • Indian Village
  • Robert Redfield
  • little tradition
  • great tradition
  • folk-urban continuum
  • McKim Marriott
  • Kishan Garhi
  • universalisation
  • parochialisation
  • Village India
  • Yogendra Singh
  • Modernization of Indian Tradition
  • orthogenetic
  • heterogenetic
  • Community Development Programme

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