1st Edition

India's Persistent Dilemma The Political Economy Of Agrarian Reform

By F. Tomasson Jannuzi Copyright 1994
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book shows that the failure of successive Indian governments to effect meaningful agrarian reforms has led to a political economy in rural India that is shaped, as it was prior to independence, largely by the interests of an elite minority of landholders. .

    Preface -- Pre-Independence Visions of Agrarian Reform and Rural Development -- Post-Independence Perspectives on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development -- Post-Independence Implementation of Agrarian Reform -- The Repeating Cycle of Agrarian Reform and Rural Unrest -- The Ineffective Formulation of Agrarian Reform Policy -- The Persistent Dilemma