ABSTRACT
Id this chapter we analyze the structural transformati cm of the
agrarian system in India in the period following independence. Since
19 7^* several important developments ha^e contributed towards the trans-
formation of India's agrarian economy* Hiere are unmistakable signs that
the agrarian system-in terms of its form of productive organization and
relations, as well as the material conditions of production««has been re®
spending to these influences·* The central feature of this système
change is a process of differentiation within the agrarian society and
economy· The groundwork for this analysis was laid in the preceding
chapter where the agrarian structure of the 1950*s was expressed as a
dichotomy between viable and non-viable households· The dichotomy was
based upon essential differences in conditions of economic reproduction·
In this chapter5 we analyze how this differentiation evolved over time.
