Land Tenure and Peasant in South Asia (Second Edition)
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Author: | Edited by Robert E Frykenberg |
ISBN 13: | 9789389850192 |
Binding: | Softcover |
Language: | English |
Year: | 2020 |
Subject: | History/Modern Period |
About the Book
Chapters in this volume look at issues of land, tenure, and
peasant from a variety of different disciplines—history,
anthropology, economics, geography, political science,
sociology. They furnish fresh insights on discrete localities
and problems. Each is by a specialist who deals with intricate
ways in which land and lord and labour have been combined
and changed.
Poverty and scarcity are not the same. Abolishing poverty
by economic development alone, without coming to grips
with conflicts, can beg the question and end in futility.
Contributors emphasize the fallacy of thinking that, with just
a little more money, fertilizer or know-how (often coming
from an alien environment), problems of land tenure and
distribution can be resolved. Socio-economic engineering,
however well intentioned, is prone to end in frustration and
failure, quite oblivious of how or why.