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Trace the development of land reforms in India between 1947 and early 1960’s.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Economic Development and Political Change

Independent India inherited a colonial agrarian structure marked by absentee landlordism, insecure tenancies and extreme inequality of holdings, and land reform was conceived as the corrective.

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  • The Colonial Inheritance
  • Phase One: Abolition of Intermediaries (Late 1940s–1950s)
  • Phase Two: Tenancy Reform
  • Phase Three: Ceiling on Landholdings
  • The Cooperative Farming Debate
  • Complementary Efforts: Consolidation and Bhoodan
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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