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Write short note : Characteristics of Neo-Rich agrarian class.

  • UPSC 2002
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

The "neo-rich" agrarian class is the surplus-accumulating, market-oriented cultivating stratum thrown up by two successive transfers of advantage: the abolition of intermediaries in the 1950s, which converted upper tenants into owners, and the Green Revolution after 1966, which converted owners into commercial farmers. In Daniel Thorner's vocabulary it is the malik who stopped taking rent…

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