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From Structural Conflict to Agrarian Stalemate:

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From Structural Conflict to Agrarian Stalemate:

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Agrarian Reforms in South India

Ronald J. Herring

Leiden

Brill

Academic and policy literature is replete with accounts of failure and cynical symbolic manipulation in the field of agrarian reforms. Kerala state in Southwestern India represents a significant exception, far surpassing the more publicized reforms of West Bengal. The argument is that the necessary conditions for structural change-primarily radical mobilization of agrarian underclasses-developed in Kerala for an unusual set of reasons, including an especially oppressive and exploitative agrarian structure, early and extensive commercialization of the state's broader economy and integration of agrarian and social reform issues with development of the anti-colonial movement. Radical reform does not, however, mean either economic progress, as often assumed, nor unambiguous liberation for the most depressed classes, as field investigations of the post-reform structure illustrate.

1991

169-188

Journal of Asian and African Studies

26/3-4

1568-5217

African Studies

General

Ronald J. Herring

10.1163/156852191X00237

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