title: Agrarian Contracts in Retrospect: Two Bihari Villages in 1970
creator: Bell, Clive
subject: ddc-330
subject: 330 Economics
description: The object of this essay is to describe and analyse contractual relations in two villages in North-east Bihar at a time when the so-called ‘green revolution’ promised  much and the region had just started to benefit from canal irrigation. It is against this historical background that I will examine, with the benefit of hindsight, the functioning of the markets for labour and tenancies, and their interplay with those for draught power and credit. Theory sheds much light on why such richly diverse arrangements prevailed, but despite notable subsequent advances, it still leaves certain important questions without a fully satisfactory answer.
date: 2016-11
type: Working paper
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22170/1/bell_2016_dp622.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00022170
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-221705
identifier:   Bell, Clive  (2016) Agrarian Contracts in Retrospect: Two Bihari Villages in 1970.  [Working paper]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22170/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng