Land Reform versus Inequality in Nadur Village, Kerala
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2950179 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard W Franke, Richard Franke (0009-0007-1583-3311, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 81-116 |
| Publication date | 1992-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/jar.48.2.3630406 |
| OpenAlex | W2332225206 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 4 |
Kerala's 1969 land reform law abolished tenancy in both rice land and house compound plots. Using a household survey in the central Kerala village of Nadur from 1971 (just before the reform was implemented), this paper examines the reform's effects by 1987 on a restudy of 170 households. Among the major consequences of the reform are: abolition of landlord and tenant classes, reduction in land ownership and income inequality as measured by the Gini index, and reduction in caste inequality as measured by comparisons of averages and selected correlations between land ownership and income. Individual household examples supplement the statistical findings to illustrate how the land reform has interacted with other features of Kerala's economy to produce upward or downward mobility within the sample population
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Caste · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic inequality · Economics · Geography · Index (typography) · Inequality · Land reform · Land tenure · Landlord · Leasehold estate · Political science · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Agricultural Economics and Practices · Demography · Law · Social and Economic Development in India
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |