Critically assess Daniel Lerner’s account of development and modernity in “The Grocer and the Chief.”  Lerner’s confident description of Balgat’s progress reveals more about the researcher than it does about the village under study.  What are Lerner’s assumptions about progress and change, and how might those assumptions distort his analysis?  You might take into consideration the possibility that the true protagonist of the story is not the maligned Grocer but the Chief and his sons…