Iversen, V. and Palmer-Jones, R. and Sen, K. (2013) On the colonial origins of agricultural development in India: A re-examination of Banerjee and Iyer, ‘History, Institutions and Economic Performance'. The Journal of Development Studies, 49 (12). pp. 1631-1646.
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Abstract
Banerjee and Iyer find that districts which the British assigned to landlord revenue systems systematically underperform districts with non-landlord based revenue systems in agricultural performance, after the onset of the Green Revolution in the mid-1960s. Based on colonial documents, archival research and the work of historians, we correct a mis-interpretation of the land revenue system in Central Provinces, which BI characterise as landlord based. The historical evidence suggests that this region should be attributed to a mixed landlord/non-landlord based revenue system. Using a more appropriate classification, we find no evidence that agricultural performance of Indian districts in the post-independence period was adversely affected by the landlord land revenue system
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, India and IDPM, University of Manchester, UK |
| Subjects: | Agricultural Engineering Social Sciences |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2014 06:08 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Mar 2014 06:08 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2013.807502 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/12840 |
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