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Book

Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Andhra Pradesh

A Study of Agrarian Relations

edited by V.K. Ramachandran, Vikas Rawal, Madhura Swaminathan

2010
9 x 7 inches
xxii + 230 pages
Paperback
ISBN: 978-81-89487-67-6
Rs 295

The book

This volume is a field report on surveys of agrarian relations in three villages in Andhra Pradesh conducted by scholars of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies. The [...]

Participation of the Rural Poor in Dairy Cooperatives in Gujarat

I once wrote a note titled “Participation of the Rural Poor in Dairy Cooperatives: Case Studies from Gujarat”. This note, written in year 2000, was based on a  background paper I wrote for the FAO project on “Rural Household Income Strategies for Poverty Alleviation and Interactions with the Local Institutional Environment”.

The note argues that inequality in [...]

Landlessness in Rural India

Ownership Holdings of Land in Rural India: Putting the Record Straight

In the past, research on land distribution in rural India has pointed out that the surveys by the National Sample Survey Organisation have yielded underestimates of the extent of land inequality and landlessness. In a fresh analysis, this paper, using household level data from the 48th [...]