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Peasant Struggles and Land Reforms in Malabar
The history of land reforms in India shows that far from bein,g a gift from an enlightened gove ment, the modest reforms that have till now been legislated (though poorly, if at'all, implemeAted) h been the outcome of long atnd protracted struggles by the peasants. This paper briefly chronicles...
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Economic and Political Weekly
1980
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/006633.pdf |
| Summary: | The history of land reforms in India shows that far from bein,g a gift from an enlightened gove
ment, the modest reforms that have till now been legislated (though poorly, if at'all, implemeAted) h
been the outcome of long atnd protracted struggles by the peasants. This paper briefly chronicles suc
a struggle, lasting over a century, by the peasants of Malabar in present-day Kerala.
Its concluision is' that even though Kerala has a relatively better record than many other states
in the legislation and implementation of land reform measures, the process is far from complete. Ind
former tenants who now own land are not always themnselves cultivators of this land. The economic
social changes induced by the land reform measures have also affected the middle peasantry whic
chiefly benefited from these measures. Hence, land reform cannot be said to have been achieved till t
vast masses of agricultural labourers most of whom remnain landless even today actually come to poss
the land on which they work |
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| Physical Description: | pp. 2095-2102 Vol. 15, No. 50 (Dec. 13, 1980), |