INDIAN CULTURE AND COMMUNITY. — sociology STD 12 Arts — Question

• Different sociologists have given the following definitions of village community:

1. M. N. Srinivasa: The village is an interdependent unit.

• Is largely self-relient.
• The village has its own village committee.
• Within the village, each caste lives its own life.
• A village is a vertical unit made up of different horizontal layers like a caste.

2. S. C. Dubey: The village is a regional group.

• It is a unit of social, economic and religious rituals, social arrangements.
• It is part of an organized political society. In addition to the village community, the person is a member of a caste, religion, regional group.
• There are more than one caste in a village.
• Which are integrated in the social, religious and administrative organization of the village.

3. D. N. Majmudar: Defines the village community as a way of life.