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082			_a305.56 AGR
100			_a"Das, Arvind N. (ed.)"
245		0	_aAgrarian relations in India /
245		0	_nv.2
260			_aNew Delhi
260			_bManohar
260			_c1979
300			_a273: ill.
520			_aThe Indian economy and society are still predominantly agrarian. India is also the country having the largest population of rural poor. By 1980, there will be no less than 300 million people living below the poverty line. Inequitous distribution of land and other assets, increasing pro and agrarian wealth fo and gruelling poverty for the majority make an explosive mixture which may soon shatter the calm of the country's planners, politicians and the people at large. I 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 passivity" and "rural resistance to change" on the other. 3.0.. 5.6. Meanwhile the poor peasants are getting restive and organising themselves to change their own conditions and the destiny of the country, unconsciously upsetting 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.
650			_aPeasantry.
700			_aNilakant, V. (ed.)
942			_cDB _2ddc