A delayed revolution: environment and agrarian change in India

Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2007) A delayed revolution: environment and agrarian change in India. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 23 (2). pp. 239-250. ISSN 0266-903X

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Slow growth of agricultural income has contributed to poor economic growth and poverty in India in modern times. The condition was weakened by Green Revolutions in the last third of the twentieth century. Conventional accounts attribute the stagnation to institutions created during colonial rule in India. This article suggests, instead, that it derived from an environmental constraint. The Green Revolutions succeeded partly because state aid enabled peasants to overcome the constraint in some regions.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://oxrep.oxfordjournals.org/
Additional Information:	© 2007 The Author
Divisions:	Economic History
Subjects:	S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
JEL classification:	N - Economic History > N5 - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries > N55 - Asia including Middle East O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies > O53 - Asia including Middle East O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O13 - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation > Q25 - Water Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q1 - Agriculture > Q18 - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy
Date Deposited:	26 Mar 2010 17:00
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2024 05:17
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/27574

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