In this post, we will see the book Agrarian Reforms In India by G. Kotovsky.

About the book

This book was completed in the spring of 1959. Naturally, therefore, the characterization of the agrarian reforms in India given in it applied to the situation as it obtained at the close of 1958.

In the three years that have passed since then, the agrarian reforms and the struggle waged around them have further developed. The author had access to many new materials, particularly as a result of his visit to India in January-February 1961 under the scientific exchange arrangements between the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Indian Statistical Institute. New analyses of the agrarian reforms underway in India have appeared in the Soviet Union and other countries and, in particular, in India. All of this has made it necessary to revise some parts of the text for the English edition and to add some new material.

Indian readers should bear in mind that the Russian edition was meant mainly for readers little familiar with the agrarian structure of modern India, and while explanations of different terms have been omitted from the translation, some details and explanations still remain in the text which may appear superfluous to Indian readers.

The author wishes to take this opportunity to express his gratitude to the Institute of the Peoples of Asia of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Oriental Languages Publishing House for undertaking the translation of the work into English and the People’s Publishing House for undertaking its publication. He also wishes to thank all colleagues who have promoted the translation and publication of the work. The author hopes that the publication of the book in English would further Soviet-Indian scientific cooperation and serve, to some extent at least, as a contribution to the wide theoretical discussion going on around the problem of agrarian reforms in India.

Translated from Russian by K. J. LAMBKIN

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