Agrarian relations in India / l

The Indian economy ociety are still predominantly grarian India is also the ountry having the largest opulation of rural poc By 980, there will be not than 100 million people living low he poverty line. Inequit distribution of land and of assets, increasing produnti y and agrarian wealth for and gruelling poverty for majority make an explosive mixture which may soon shatter the calm of the country's planners, politicians and the people at large.

And yet the planners are unable to get out of the tangle of protecting landed interests and simultaneously prescribring land reforms; the politicians are busy nursing their power bases and the academics are busy in statistical jugglery on the one hand and promoting their pet theories of "peasant passivi and "rural resistance to chang on the other.

Meanwhile the poor peasan are getting restive and organis themselves to change their of conditions and the destiny of th country, unconsciously upsettin neat applecarts of political pundits and academic theorists in the process.

This book makes an attempt to understand how real peasants live and act and how they are bringing about change.

It is an anthology of articles by eminent social scientists, administrators, journalists and and activists, that contains cases from the present situation, and reports of Change Agents and Change Processes. And it brings out the details of the dynamic rural Indian scenario and gives an overview of the direction in which the agrarian reality is moving.