As the authoritative text and imbued with colonial power, maps deeply affected how Indians related to their surroundings and their history and culture.
Graham Allison’s Bureaucratic Politics model suggests that structure also operates within the framework of a sub-unit system, thus diminishing levels of agency.
The pluralist-solidarist debate is not as inherently oppositional as originally presented. It is only when pluralism and solidarism are seen as dichotomized and opposed that conflict arises.
