Agrarian Contracts in Retrospect: Two Bihari Villages in 1970

Arbeitspapier

The object of this essay is to describe and analyse contractual relations in two villages in North-east Bihar at a time when the so-called ‘green revolution’ promised much and the region had just started to benefit from canal irrigation. It is against this historical background that I will examine, with the benefit of hindsight, the functioning of the markets for labour and tenancies, and their interplay with those for draught power and credit. Theory sheds much light on why such richly diverse arrangements prevailed, but despite notable subsequent advances, it still leaves certain important questions without a fully satisfactory answer.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Paper Series ; No. 622

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Agricultural Labor Markets ; Economic History: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries: Asia including Middle East ; Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products ; Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
• Subject: agrarian contracts ; Bihar

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bell, Clive
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.11588/heidok.00022170
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/162965
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-221705
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET