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Patronage and Power in Rural India: A study in three states of India

Bhattacharya, Anindya; Kar, Anirban; Kumar, Sunil; Nandi, Alita (2017), Patronage and Power in Rural India: A study in three states of India. https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/18035

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Document de travail / Working paper
Date
2017
Series title
NOPOOR Working Paper
Series number
85
Pages
17
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Bhattacharya, Anindya
Department of Economics and Related Studies
Kar, Anirban

Kumar, Sunil

Nandi, Alita
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Abstract (EN)
Land ownership, caste hierarchy and patron-client relation have been regarded as the traditional building blocks of political-economic organization in rural India. However, many believe that gradual urbanization and expansion of market economy have eroded the influence of traditional power structure. This work is a contribution toward identifying the nature of ‘local' rural institutions based on primary data collected by ourselves. We took 36 villages in the states of Maharashtra, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh - 12 in each of these states as the sites for our observation and data collection. We quantify nature of institutions from data on the day-to-day interactions of households in the spheres of economy, society and politics. The aspect of institution we focus on is the structure of multidimensional and interlinked dependence in these spheres and whether such dependence is concentrated on a few ‘powerful' entities (called ‘local elites') dominating over a large number of households or whether this is distributed in a sufficiently diffuse manner. Our household survey shows that there is enormous variation in power structure across regions. We identified the presence of powerful entities called ‘local elites' in 23 villages out of 36 surveyed. We conducted a follow-up survey, called ‘elite survey', to get detailed information about the identified elite households. Our primary objective was to learn the socio-economic-political profile of the elite households and their involvement in village life. This paper provides a summary of our findings. We observe that landlordism has considerably weakened, land has ceased to be the sole source of power and new power centres have emerged. Despite these changes, caste, landownership and patron-client relation continue to be three important pillars of rural power structure.
Subjects / Keywords
Clientelism; Lanlordism; Network
JEL
O1 - Economic Development
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure

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