This study has the following objectives.

Primary objectives:

• To identify the salient elements of the agrarian policy during the first two decades since India’s independence (1947-1970)

• Understanding the politico-economic compulsions, pressures and influences that shaped the policy formulation

• Workings of the agrarian policy and what measure of success it achieved

• Derive some pedagogical tools in the process of understanding the policy making process and develop teaching modules

Secondary objectives:

• To understand the role played by the Ford Foundation in the shaping of the agrarian policy

• What were the other ideological anchors that were informing the evolution of the agrarian policy, specifically, the Government of India commissioned surveys of Agrarian Cooperatives in China?

• What were the significant debates preceding the formation of the Food Corporation of India, up until the time it became an entity with a real deliverable mandate (early 1970s)?

This project is funded by the JGU Research Grants Committee. It began in 2014 and is expected to conclude by 2017.