Continuities in the Study of Gramdan
An Analysis of Social and Economic Outcomes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2498346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Partha Nath Mukherji (corresponding author), Partha Mukherji |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-26 |
| Publication date | 1974-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.33.1.72292877702r5869 |
| OpenAlex | W1986521252 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
This paper examines India's experiments with communitarian living based on the Gandhian philosophy of sarvodaya. Two sets of causal generating factors have been taken into consideration for analysis of the communitarian (gramdan) villages: (1) the role of the change-agent (authoritarian-democratic); and (2) the objective conditions obtaining in the villages prior to gramdan (predispositions). The behavior outcomes of the gramdan villages have been analyzed at two levels. First, in terms of conforming and deviant behavior with respect to the voluntarily accepted norms of communal ownership of private landed property, and second, the differential behavior which characterized these villages after becoming gramdan villages.In this paper two more hypotheses are suggested. (1) It seems likely that villages with pressing economic needs, under the impact of authoritarian change-agents, tend to conform to the gramdan land-pattern and respond to economic programs (especially related to land) more readily than vil
Classical economics · Economic analysis · Economic growth · Economics · Sociology · Indian Economic and Social Development · Indian History and Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Economic Development in India
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |