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- The author is Reader in Economics at Delhi School of Economics. The author wishes to thank members of the Stanford Food Research Institute for their comments on an earlier version of this paper, and also to thank Amit Bhaduri, Robert Cassen, M. Datta-Chaudhuri, Dharm Narain, C. H. Hanumantha Rao, Louis Lefeber, Michael Lipton, V. K. Ramaswami, A. K. Sen, T. N. Srinivasan and M. S. Swaminathan.