Land Reforms

Tirthankar Roy
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Chapter 6 in The Economy of South Asia, 2017, pp 129-154 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract When British colonial rule ended in the region, the new nation states faced a similar set of challenges with agriculture. Land provided livelihood to the majority of the working people. But the productivity of land was low. What could the states do to secure the livelihoods of the poor peasants? How would a poor agriculture sustain an expensive industrialization process? Redistributive land reforms, it was thought then, would provide solutions to these issues. In effect, not only did land reform follow very different patterns in the five countries, by and large it failed to deliver on the promises. Why was that the case?

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54720-6_6

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