India and the Colonial Mode of Production

Abstract

Important issues have been raised by Indian Marxist agricultural economists in a debate about 'The Mode of Production in Indian Agriculture'.' That debate is taking place in the context of far-reaching changes that have taken place in Indian agriculture in recent years; changes that were once celebrated as 'The Green Revolution'. Today, its conservative authors as well as its radical critics are compelled, by the force of the contradictions in rural class relations (as well as in the economy as a whole) that have been brought to the surface as a consequence, to move beyond the limits of justification or condemnation, to analyse and assess the nature and significance of the structural changes that have been brought about.