Day: January 19, 2015

Land reforms in post-colonial India (A) Land Reform (1947- 70): The main characteristics of the agrarian structure which independent India inherited were absentee land ownership; exploitation of tenants through high rents and insecurity of tenure; unequal distribution of land; tiny and fragmented holdings; and lack of adequate institutional finance to agriculture. On this agrarian structure […]

DALIT MOVEMENTS Dalits were the worst exploited and oppressed people in India. However, Dalits, who were deliberately degraded as untouchables by the Brahamanic forces had never accepted their position. They had begun protesting against it from the beginning itself. At the first, their response to untouchability came to the fore in the shape of Bhakti […]