Thinker
Utsa Patnaik
Utsa Patnaik is central to 12 previous-year questions, spanning 2009 to 2025 across Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
12Questions
2009–25Years tested
IIPaper
3Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside Utsa Patnaik
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
commercialisation of agriculture 7green revolution 6agrarian class structure 5capitalist farming 3depeasantisation 3differentiation of peasantry 3agrarian differentiation 2agrarian distress 2agrarian transformation 2bullock capitalists 2depeasantisation and casualisation 2regional inequality 2agrarian class relationsagrarian crisiscaste and class overlapclass-caste nexuscontract farmingcultivating and non-cultivating owners
Where Utsa Patnaik appears in the syllabus
Every question on Utsa Patnaik
Each links to a full breakdown — how to approach it, a model answer, and the examiner’s perspective.
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