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Agricultural Modernisation in Rural Orissa: Land Transfer and Ownership Pattern:

01 Mar 2000-Sociological bulletin (SAGE PublicationsSage India: New Delhi, India)-Vol. 49, Iss: 1, pp 63-90
TL;DR: In this paper, an examen des changements agraires a l'oeuvre dans l'Etat indien d'Orissa montre une tendance a la polarisation de la structure fonciere, i.e., les mesures de modernisation profitent aux proprietaires les plus riches, qui consolident la valorisation de leurs terres, elles poussent les plus pauvres a vendre des terres qui n'assurent plus la securite economique.
Abstract: Un examen des changements agraires a l'oeuvre dans l'Etat indien d'Orissa montre une tendance a la polarisation de la structure fonciere. Tandis que les mesures de modernisation profitent aux proprietaires les plus riches, qui consolident la valorisation de leurs terres, elles poussent les plus pauvres a vendre des terres qui n'assurent plus la securite economique. Il ne s'agit pas d'un mecanisme de libre concurrence, car il est lourdement biaise par les structures de pouvoir des villages, influences directement par la segregation dans l'acces au credit et aux services gouvernementaux, ainsi que par le monopole exerce par les elites villageoises sur l'organe juridique local, le panch
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated suicides in Amravati and Yavatmal districts, Maharashtra, in relation to Durkheimian theory, which attributes such acts to an historically specific combination of social and economic causes.
Abstract: Findings presented here about farmer suicides in Amravati and Yavatmal districts, Maharashtra, are evaluated in relation to Durkheimian theory, which attributes such acts to an historically specific combination of social and economic causes. Lower and middle caste peasant smallholders found themselves trapped between enhanced aspirations generated by land reform and other post-1947 measures, and the reality of neoliberalism (rising debt, declining income). Suicides among large and medium farmers belonging to the higher castes in Maharashtra were occasioned by failures in business, trade and politics. Such cases are consistent with the argument put forward by Durkheim, that suicide is an effect of individualization, a process of socio-economic ‘estrangement’ from agrarian communities experienced by rural producers in the context of rapid economic growth.

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  • ...Cooperative officials pointed out that rich farmers frequently default on loans, a problem that is encountered not just in Maharashtra but also in other parts of India [Dhanagare, 1975; Sarap, 1991; Mohanty, 1999, 2000]....

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the rural socio-cultural scenario was at the crossroads in the 1960s with the introduction of the new agricultural revolution, popularly known as the Green Revolution.
Abstract: India's rural socio-cultural scenario was at the crossroads in the 1960s with the introduction of the new agricultural revolution, popularly known as the Green Revolution. One of the protracted deb...

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of modemization patterns in the agrarian economy of the rural setting and pin-pointed how mechanization in agricultural activities bring prosperity to the region so far as the nature of land and the life of the people are concerned.
Abstract: The paper examines the impact of modemization patterns in the agrarian economy of the rural setting. In course of presenting his observations in relation to the various technological and allied developmental activities in a particular village of Orissa the author has pin-pointed how mechanization in agricultural activities bring prosperity to the region so far as the nature of land and the life of the people are concerned. But at the same time there are contrary effect. The small and poor peasants have failed to cope with the new development-the new situation has become incompatible to them due to certain obvious reasons. The rich and progressive people are availing themselves of the better opportunities and they are drawing conspicuous benefit whereas the poor peasants have been facing economic insecurity which is on the increase with the march of time.

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  • ...While one group holds that agricultural modernising measures have reduced the earlier landowning disparities (Bhalla 1977; Harriss 1985; Hazell et. al 1991; Athreya 1990), the other argues that they have created further disparities (Dhanagare 1984; Griffin 1974; Frankel 1971; Parthasarathy 1970)....

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  • ...…power possessed by the wealthy and prosperous farmers, by reinforcing each other ensure privileged access to the scarce means of production (Griffin 1974: 17-20) The agrarian studies in India subscribe to two different views on impact of agricultural modernisation on landownership…...

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  • ...Though the pioneering study of F.G.Bailey (1957) looked into the causes, conditions and consequences of land market and land transfers, the analysis is made within the caste frame in relation to the extension of administrative and commerce frontiers....

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  • ...Delhi: Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd. Bailey, F.G. 1957....

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  • ...While one group holds that agricultural modernising measures have reduced the earlier landowning disparities (Bhalla 1977; Harriss 1985; Hazell et. al 1991; Athreya 1990), the other argues that they have created further disparities (Dhanagare 1984; Griffin 1974; Frankel 1971; Parthasarathy 1970)....

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13 Jan 1992
TL;DR: Rao et al. as mentioned in this paper studied small farmers' access to formal credit characteristics of Linked and Non-Linked Households in the case of marginal and small tenants and Landless Agricultural Labourers.
Abstract: Foreword - C H Hanumantha Rao Introduction Salient Features of the Study Area and Credit Market Structure Small Farmers' Access to Formal Credit Characteristics of Linked and Non-Linked Households Theory and Evidence Credit Transactions, Lenders' Collateral Requirement and Interest Rates Interlinked Agrarian Credit Market The Case of Marginal and Small Tenants Landless Agricultural Labourers Their Interface with the Informal Credit Market Evaluation and Conclusion

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01 Aug 1990
TL;DR: A glossary of Tamil and Indian English terms is provided in this paper for a discussion of land relations in Tamil and English in the context of agrarian classes in Tamil-Tamil land relations.
Abstract: Introduction Methods Ecology Changing Land Relations Labour Relations Identificaton of Agrarian Classes Usury and Credit Economics of Scale or Advantages of Class? Summary and Conclusions Glossary of Tamil and Indian English Terms

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