Ascertaining the economic characteristics of peasant classes‐in‐themselves in rural India: A methodological and empirical exercise |
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Authors: | Utsa Patnaik |
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Institution: | Centre for Economic Studies and Planning , Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi |
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Abstract: | In 1976 the author developed a simple labour‐use index for the empirical identification of classes‐in‐themselves within a cultivating population. This index was subsequently applied, along with other conventional grouping methods, to farm economics data relating to Haryana, India. This analysis was complete by 1981. Part I of this article summarises some results of this methodological exercise in ascertaining the economic characteristics of classes‐in‐themselves. Part II is a critical discussion of an article on a similar theme by Athreya, Böklin, Djurfeldt and Lindberg in a recent issue of this journal. |
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