Abstract
In late 1976 I spent ten months in Thanjavur District of southeast India, re-studying two villages after an absence of twenty-five years. I had gone back to find out what had happened to the village people, especially with respect to their standard of living, their relations of production and their integration into the world economy. I was particularly interested in the effects of land reforms passed between 1952 and 1974, and of the introduction of “green revolution” technology since 1965.
Notes
1. The research in Thanjavur on which this paper is based was carried out in 1951–53 and in 1976. The work in 1976 was made possible by Fellowships from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and the Canada Council. The information on North Vietnam was obtained during a 10 day visit to Hanoi and the surrounding provinces in November 1976. I am grateful to the Women's Union of Vietnam for inviting me to their country and for making possible my tour of villages, and especially to Mrs. Nguyen Le Khanh, who acted as my interpreter. An earlier version of this article was presented as a lecture in the Sociology Department, State University of New York, Binghamton, on May 3, 1977, and was published in Social Scientist, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, No. 61, August 1977, pp. 48–64.
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