Understanding Green Revolutions: Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia. Essays in Honour of B. H. Farmer

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Preface Sir Joseph Hutchinson Part I. Understanding Green Revolutions: An Overview: 1. The agricultural revolution in Western Europe David B. Grigg 2. Land reform as a pre-condition for Green Revolution in Latin America Clifford T. Smith 3. Frogs and farmers: the Green Revolution in India, and its murky past Christopher J. Baker 4. Agrarian change and the Merchant State in Tamil Nadu Barbara Harriss Part II. Agrarian Change at Village Level: 5. Agrarian policy and agrarian change in tribal India Stuart Corbridge 6. Migration and agrarian change in Garhwal district, Uttar Pradesh William Whittaker 7. Agricultural development in Tamil Nadu: two decades of land use change at village level Robert W. Bradnock 8. Energy flows and agrarian change in Karnataka: the Green Revolution at micro-scale Tim P. Bayliss-Smith 9. Income and wealth disparities in a land settlement of the Sri Lanka dry zone Vidyuamali Samarasinghe and S. W. R. de A. Samarasinghe 10. Agrarian structure and agricultural innovation in Bangladesh: Panimara village, Dhaka district Steve Jones 11. A structural analysis of two farms in Bangladesh Graham P. Chapman Part III. Development Planning and Agrarian Change: 12. Rural-based models for rural development: the Indian experience Sudhir Wanmali 13. Planning and agrarian change in East Africa: appropriate and inappropriate models for land settlement scenes Deryke G. R. Belshaw 14. Metropolitan expansion in India: spatial dynamics and rural transformation K. V. Sundaram and V. L. S. Prakasa Rao 15. Green Revolution and water demand: irrigation and ground water in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu C. M. Madduma Bandara 16. Social organisation and irrigation: ideology, planning and practice in Sri Lanka's settlement schemes John C. Harriss 17. Environmental hazard and coastal reclamation: problems and prospects in Bangladesh David R. Studdart and John S. Pethick 18. Beyond the Green Revolution: a selective essay Robert Chambers Index.