CONTENTS List of Tables ix List of Figures xv Acknowledgements xvii Introduction: Sankar Kumar Bhaumik xviii Part I: Indian Agriculture in the Era of Economic Reforms 1. India: The State of Its Economy 3 Rajesh Mehta and Manmohan Agarwal 2. Agricultural Development in India: Policies and Performance 25 A. Venkateswarlu 3. Domestic Policy Measures and Challenges in Indian Agriculture 42 Ramesh Chand 4. Income, Consumption and Expenditure of Farmers: Stunted Capitalist Development in Indian Agriculture 67 G.S. Bhalla 5. The Decline of Agriculture 96 Surinder S. Jodhka Part II: Policy Interventions for Agricultural Development 6. Price Policy and Minimum Support Prices in a Changing Agricultural Economy 11 R.S. Deshpande 7. Agricultural Risks and Public Policy: Cross-Country Experiences 161 Surjit Singh 8. Contract Farming for Agricultural Development: Review of Theory and Practice with Special Reference to India 19 Sukhpal Singh 9. Structural Inequalities and Interlinked Transactions in Agrarian Markets: Results of a Field Survey 23 Deepak Kumar Mishra 10.Functioning and Impact of Microfinance: Evidence from Himachal Pradesh 269 H.R. Sharma 11. When Rural Development Succeeds? Experience from the Two Punjabs and West Bengal 291 Sucha Singh Gill 12.Crucial Role of Agriculture in Indian Development: A Japanese Perspective 315 S. Hirashima Part III: Employment, Poverty and Food Access 13.Unemployment in a Traditional Agrarian Economy: Theory and Evidence 345 Pradipta Chaudhury 14.Employment in India's Development Strategy 363 T.S. Papola 15.Rural Non-farm Employment, Poverty and Inequality in West Bengal 381 Sankar Kumar Bhaumik 16.Combating Poverty and Malnutrition in Bangladesh 413 Firdousi Naher 17.Dalits and the Right to Food: Discrimination and Exclusion in Food-related Government Programmes 442 S.K. Thorat and Joel Lee Part IV: Other Aspects of Development Policy 18.Imperative of Cooperation among Indian States 467 Gopal Krishan 19.Privatization of State-owned Enterprises in India 481 Madhu Bala 20.Technological Constraints of Small-Scale Industries in India: Some Evidence from a Field Survey 498 Partha Pratim Sahu Appendix 517 About the Editor and Contributors o 532 Index 534