ABSTRACT
India's economic problems can never be solved by the mere adaptation of certain specific lines of policy, Anstey and her associate workers were claiming in the nineteen-twenties. Obstacles to progress were found to be deep-rooted in the everyday life, customs and social organization of the people. Landholding, the level of rents and of land revenue, cultural practices, and payments to hired labour, depended more upon tradition and custom, and the traditional relationship between classes and castes than upon economic factors,
