Emerging agrarian relations in India

This volume is an outcome of the study sponsored and appreciated by the Planning Commission, Government of India. It attempts to analyse the ground realities of changing agrarian structure in the areas of permanent settlement of rural India. It examines whether semi feudal landlord-tenant relations of production persist in backward agriculture which remained responsible for under performance of agriculture that resulted into wide spread poverty. This study covers not only the theoretical underpinnings but also the changes in productive forces and emergence of market in this sector of rural economy. Labour absorption, productivity with diversification of agriculture and introduction of non-agricultural activities are the points of attraction for the readers who are really interested in the minute details of change through castes and class based analysis of the process of rural transformation. Problems of rural indebtedness, migration and consump tion deficiency have been discussed with new angles and dynamics.

Analysis of emerging socioeconomic, political and cultural relations and gender perceptions about change from the respondents' points of views are the basic features of this piece of work. Suggestions and policy recommendations forwarded directly by the respondents have been organised thematically in order to make them readable to the policy makers. This is one of the indices of originality of the work in the area of the debate on production relations.