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Why did the demand for land reform never become an agenda in national politics after 1947? Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Economic Development and Political Change

Land reform was legislated everywhere yet mobilised nowhere — the puzzle is not that reform failed technically, but that it never became a sustained national political demand capable of forcing real enforcement.

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  • Congress's Own Social Base Among Rural Landed Interests
  • Land as a State Subject: Implementation Captured Locally
  • The Missing Mobilised Peasant Constituency
  • The Politics of Symbolic Legislation
  • Diversion of Political Energy to Other Consolidating Priorities

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