CONTENT: Preface v List of Contributors ix Introduction xi 1. Land Reforms: The Next Phase by V. S. Vyas 1 2. The Land Question and Globalization: Some Reflections on the Relevance of Redistributive Land Reforms by V. B. Athreya 13 3. The Problem of Tenancy Reforms and Land Reforms in Relation to Productivity and Rural Poverty by Utsa Patnaik 31 4. Some Aspects of Tenancy Debate: Implications for Policy Reforms by Pitshpendra and B. K. Sinha 47 5. Volatility in Land Markets and Rural Poverty by C. S. Murty 70 6. Changing Tenancy Relations in Rural India by H. R. Sharma 88 7. Tenancy and Rural Poor: Some Important Issues by R. P. Singh 123 8. Operation Barga and Rural Poverty: West Bengal Experience by Sankar Kumar Bhaumik 138 9. Emerging Land Lease Market in Haryana by P. C. Bansil 152 10. Changes in Land Holding Structure, Farm Size, Productivity and Tenancy in Punjab by Ramesh Chand 163 11. Sharecropping Tenancy and Terms of Access to Land to the Poor: A Comparative Study by A. P. Singh 175 12. Poverty Alleviation: Relative Roles of Land Lease and Sales Markets in a Prosperous Part of UP by Gyanendra Mani and V. K. Pandey 190 13. Access to Land, Land Markets and Poverty: The Orissa Experience by Basanta K. Sahu 204 14. Land Markets, Agrarian Structure and Poverty in Andhra Pradesh by R. Vijay 240 15. Changing Land-Caste-Class Relations and Rural Poverty in Bihar by Anup K. Koran 271 16. Land Reforms and Land Policy Issues in the Context of Karnataka by R. S. Deshpande 299 17. Conceptualizing Land and Rural Poverty Linkages with Some Reflections on Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh by Praveen Jha 318 18. Land Distribution and Tenancy in Orissa by R. K. Panda and S. Tripathy 332 19. Land Relations and Conflicts in North Eastern India: A Look at Modernisation, Immigration and Livelihood Lossby Walter Fernandes 20. Land Holdings and Tenancy in North-Eastern States by S. Tripathy 364 21. State and NGO Interventions in the Distribution of Land by to the Poor: A Study of Tamil Nadu by M. Thangaraj 383 22. Globalization and Contract Fanning: The Experience of Some States by K. Gopallyer 399 Index409