Dimensions of Development: Analysis of an Underdeveloped State (Vol. 1 : Agriculture)

Being the first treatise in a multi-volume series (each Vol. self-contained) addressed to the dimensions of development, keeping All-India, Bihar and the relevant other States in the forefront, during a period from 1947 to the present day, this book is the first ever attempt by a scholar noted for his over five decades of teaching, research and publication to produce a work which presents between its two covers a succinct and compact, and yet a comprehensive and persuasive, account of agriculture in all its varied facets, blending harmoniously facts with statistics, culled out discreetly and astutely from numerous sources, analysis with policy, information with interpretation marked by critical acumen and penetrating perceptiveness, in a language which is through-cut clear, familiar and lucid, and thereby embellishing and furbishing the knowledge and thought on the subject, compiled with difficulty being scattered and unorganised, and hence adding substantially to the utility and relevance of this book. It is our hope that this book, which fills on old void, i.e., its forte, would prove immensely useful to those students who have to appear at college and university examinations, scholars who have to write dissertations for their research degrees, men of practical affairs who are required to debate issues related to agricultural development of a low-income State and, finally, administrators who are called upon to formulate policies and programmes and execute them at the grassroots level.