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Agricultural land redistribution : toward greater consensus
A comprehensive analysis of agricultural land redistribution in developing countries. Despite centuries of land reform, inequalities persist. Agricultural Land Redistribution examines the economic and policy aspects of land redistribution, offering insights for policymakers and practitioners. This volume:
* Addresses land inequality and poverty reduction
* Explores land tenure systems and property rights
* Analyzes market-based approaches and expropriation
* Examines community participation and sustainable agriculture
This insightful resource is for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners in agriculture and rural development seeking to achieve greater consensus on effective land reform strategies. Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, Camille Bourguignon, and Rogier J. E. van den Brink present a valuable contribution to a critical area of development.
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From Land to the Tiller to Land Liberalisation: The Political Economy of Gujarat's Shifting Land Policy
Land is a metaphor for power, wealth and status. Independent Gujarat's initial mass-development strategy centered on agriculture but the emphasis was on productivity and efficiency rather than land redistribution or social justice. A state apparatus and socio-political set-up dominated by elite landed upper and middle castes and classes ensured this. Primary fieldwork-based research shows that by the mid-1980s, with a growing acceptance of ideas of liberalisation at the national and international level, the elite consensus on land began to shift. This shift must also be placed within local socio-economic developments that had propelled dominant landed groups into agro-industry and small scale industry in the last third of the twentieth century. Gujarat's elite still wanted to control land, but they did not want the state to regulate land use or continue emphasising the diluted but powerful rhetoric of land to the tiller. The rightward shift of all political formations in Gujarat after 1985 and the growing importance of the upper caste-middle class merchant-trader-builder-small businessman dominated Bharatiya Janata Party further facilitated the moves towards a shift in land policy. Continuing changes in Gujarat's land policy are determinedly moving towards the complete liberalisation of land.
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The Technology of Sanitation in Colonial Delhi
I. Sewage Under Capitalism The preservation of the wealth and welfare of nations, and advances in
culture and civilisation depend on how the
sewage question is resolved.(von Liebig, 1850s). Delhi is a very suggestive and moralising place—such stupendous
remains of power and wealth passed and passing away—and somehow I feel
that we horrid English have just ‘gone and done it’,
merchandised it, revenue it, and spoiled it all. (Emily Eden, 1838). Veena Oldenburg argues that after the Rebellion of 1857 British colonial
officials inaugurated a process of urban reconstruction following three
imperatives: safety, sanitation and loyalty. To make the cities of India
safe, clean and loyal, the colonial regime exerted a measure of
‘social control . . . In an era when tinkering with the structure of
society had been officially and unambiguously forsworn.’. If the highest offices
of the colonial regime proclaimed its remove from society, she argues, the
‘lowest levels of decision making and action’, intruded effectively to
reconstruct the social fabric of urban life. In this essay, we will examine this lowest level
of the colonial regime in the local government of Delhi (the Delhi Municipal
Corporation [DMC], the commissioner's office, the army, the Public Works
Department [PWD], the railway officials) and its relations with the local nobility
(the rais and amirs), the merchants, and working people.
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