Agricultural policy reform is one of the major challenges facing India today. Such reform is required to reduce poverty through faster agricultural growth and t

The book covers Indian agricultural development from the colonial to the present period. It examines how ruling class political ideology determined the agricult

Agricultural support policies cost more than US$800 billion per year in transfers to the farm sector worldwide. Support policies based on subsidies and trade ba

This book shows that the failure of successive Indian governments to effect meaningful agrarian reforms has led to a political economy in rural India that is sh