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A Delayed Revolution: Environment and Agrarian Change in India


Tirthankar Roy


London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 239-250, 2007

Abstract:     
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.

Keywords: Green Revolution, agricultural technology, economic history, South Asia

JEL Classification: N55, O13, O53, Q18, Q25

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Date posted: June 25, 2008  

Suggested Citation

Roy, Tirthankar, A Delayed Revolution: Environment and Agrarian Change in India. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 239-250, 2007. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1151123 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grm011

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Tirthankar Roy (Contact Author)
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) ( email )
Houghton Street
London, WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
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