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The correct answer is Option (3) → How it is constantly transformed, and the social and economic consequences of this

Option (1) How the invisible hand keeps its prices balanced through supply and demand — Incorrect. The invisible hand is Adam Smith's idea of a self-regulating market, where supply and demand set prices on their own. It is an economic model and leaves out the social ties and constant change that shape these markets.

Option (2) How support prices and subsidies protect it from the world market — Incorrect. Support prices and subsidies once protected Indian farming from the world market. Under liberalisation they are reduced or withdrawn, so this describes an older arrangement that is fading.

Option (3) How it is constantly transformed, and the social and economic consequences of this — Correct. Markets are changing fast under liberalisation and globalisation. So the need now is to study how they are constantly transformed and what wider social and economic consequences these changes bring.

Option (4) How the state can plan its production in place of private traders — Incorrect. Liberalisation reduces state control and the role of the public sector. Planning production in place of private traders runs against the present direction of change.