Title: Land reform and agrarian change
First published: 1987
Description: A village ethnography documenting changes during the first 15 years of development in the new province of Rajasthan. From the feudal conditions under a princely state of Rajputana to a modern democratic polity, this community experienced elections with universal franchise, land reform, and the Panchayati Raj program of political decentralization. An exhaustive study of 24 castes, 185 households, and partnerships at the wells of irrigation reveals the dynamics of on-going economic and political change that transformed tenants into a class of independent yeoman farmers.
Subjects: Social conditions, Land reform, Village ethnography, inter-actional dynamics of change
Places: India, Rajasthan (India), Rajasthan, Marwar region, Aravalli Hills
Time periods: Field research March 1963 to June 1965 documenting pre-Independence and post-Independence village life.
LC classification: HD1333.I42 R37 1987