Empowering Panchayats Handbook For Master Trainers (Using Participatory Approach)

This book views land reforms from a historical perspective It argues that the success or failure of land reforms can only be judged by the role the reforms play in the historical development of the agrarian structure. As such a legislation which sounds radical when viewed in isolation can, in the context of a given agrarian structure, merely play the role of strengthening the hands of the already dominant classes. Based on the Karnataka experience, the book points out that the successful impleme