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Discuss the main features of Land Reforms in post-independence India.

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  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

Land reform in independent India was conceived not as a welfare scheme but as an institutional reconstruction of the agrarian structure. Its premise was the diagnosis Daniel Thorner offered in The Agrarian Prospect in India (1956), that the inherited system of rent, debt and status operated as a "built-in depressor" on production. Its design was…

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