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Changing Distribution of Land and Assets in Indian Agriculture

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  • Debarshi Das

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Government reports in India indicate that big farms are losing land in terms of absolute area as well as percentage of land. To understand the nature of accumulation I estimate the distribution of assets of cultivator households and distribution of land of operational landholdings, and examine how they change over time. It is found that the top fifteen percentiles of holdings have lost land share, the bottom fifty percentiles have gained land share. The share of assets of top fifteen percentiles cultivator households has gone up, the bottom fifty percentiles has also gained assets share. Distribution of land and assets of fifteen major states has been estimated. The paper discusses the possible causes and implications of these observations.

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  • Debarshi Das, 2015. "Changing Distribution of Land and Assets in Indian Agriculture," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 47(3), pages 412-423, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:47:y:2015:i:3:p:412-423
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613414542777
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    1. Debarshi Das, 2018. "A Model of the Marxist Rent Theory," UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers 2018-10, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics.

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    Keywords

    agricultural investment; assets distribution; land distribution; capitalist transition;
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    JEL classification:

    • B24 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Socialist; Marxist; Scraffian
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment

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