The Land Question and the Mobility of the Marginalized: A Study of Land Inequality in Kerala

C. R. Yadu
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Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, vol. 4, issue 3, 327-370

Abstract: Kerala’s widely acclaimed land reform failed to yield social equality. This article analyzes Kerala’s land question from the perspective of social equity and shows that even after the much touted land reform, land inequality in the state stands very high, whether measured in terms of overall distribution inequality or social inequality. The land reform, along with other factors, resulted in the preponderance of small and marginal holdings. In the social front, the marginalized communities still stand at the bottom of land ownership. The persisting inequality in land ownership has significant stakes in the upward mobility of the marginalized groups. The study reveals that land ownership is an important variable affecting the educational level of households and that land reform in the state widened the opportunities for occupational mobility among the marginalized groups.

Keywords: Land question; land reform; social inequality; mobility; marginalized (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/2277976016637990

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