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Land reforms have failed in the eradication of rural poverty. Comment.

  • UPSC 2016
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  • Planning and Economic Development

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Colonial revenue settlements turned land into a commodity and placed the surplus with rentiers who did not cultivate. Daniel Thorner (The Agrarian Prospect in India, 1956) called this the "built-in depressor": the landlord had no reason to invest and the insecure tenant no means to. Land reform after 1947 was meant to release both justice…

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