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India's Persistent Dilemma - The Political Economy Of Agrarian Reform (Hardcover)
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India's Persistent Dilemma - The Political Economy Of Agrarian Reform (Hardcover)
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This study 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. This group, Jannuzi argues, has worked both to deny
the socioeconomic changes promised by modern India's own founders
and to thwart the needs and interests of the rural majority who
continue to lack secure rights in land. Examining the government's
inability to establish a coherent national program for agrarian
reform, the author focuses on the failure of a process that, on the
one hand, has guaranteed India's landholding elites strong and
continuous representation in the shaping of such agrarian reforms
as were legislated and partially implemented and, on the other, has
given no meaningful voice to the people at the base of what he
calls "the hierarchy of interests in land" in rural India. The
author skillfully interweaves three major themes: (1) the
remarkable continuity in the thinking of policy makers in both
colonial and independent India as they struggled to articulate and
promote agrarian policies; (2) the persistence of economic
arguments for agrarian reform that emphasize the idea that large
units of cultivation offer inherent productive efficiency
advantages over small holdings; and (3) the role of both British
and Indian decision makers in maintaining a conceptual dichotomy
between the issue of increasing productivity and the issue of
distributive justice. Noting the expanding political participation
of India's rural poor as well as the continuing need for increased
agricultural productivity, Jannuzi asserts that future Indian
leaders must emphasize the complementarity of the goals of
productivity growth and distributive justice. As they seek to form
a political nexus with the rural majority, future leaders will be
challenged to implement agrarian policies that actually transform
the political econ
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