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Explain how land reforms brought about desired agrarian transformation.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 20 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

Land reform was independent India's principal instrument for remaking the agrarian order inherited from colonial revenue settlements. Its declared objectives were to remove the structural impediments built into that order and to eliminate exploitation so as to secure equality of status and opportunity. Daniel Thorner, in The Agrarian Prospect in India (1956), located a "built-in…

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  • The transformation that was intended
  • How land reform did transform the countryside
  • Where the transformation fell short of "desired"
  • Conclusion

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