In what respect is M. N. Srinivas' study of Indian village society based on structural and functional perspective? Analyse. (Answer in 150 words)

- In what respect is M. N. Srinivas' study of Indian village society based on structural and functional perspective? Analyse. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
Srinivas, trained under Radcliffe-Brown, reads the village as a working system of interdependent parts, not as a text.
Body
1. What the perspective demands: That society be treated as a system of interrelated parts, observed in the present by fieldwork, each institution explained by the place it occupies and what it contributes to the whole.
2. Where the village study is structural: Rampura, studied from 1948, is a unit of structure: jatis ranked by ritual purity, tied by hereditary service, with the dominant caste — landowning and numerous — as its pivot. He insists on the village's vertical unity cutting across the horizontal solidarity of caste.
3. Where it is functional: Institutions are explained by what they do: the dominant caste settles disputes and enforces sanctions, temple ritual and festival integrate castes that purity keeps apart, and Sanskritization lets a jati raise its standing by imitating twice-born practice, so mobility leaves the hierarchy standing.
Conclusion
The method showed how the village held together; it explained poorly how it came apart.