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The document discusses the importance placed on villages in British imperial constructions of India in the 19th century. It describes how British officials viewed the Indian village as the fundamental social unit, with over 300 million rural inhabitants living in about half a million villages. The village was seen as embodying traditional Indian civilization and surviving ancient Aryan social structures, in contrast to modern Western societies. However, the document argues that this focus on villages also s
- Author
- Vineet Rathee
- Language
- EN