T^E RECENT PHASE OF INDIANS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 15 industrialisation in economies like ours appears limited, the basic reason for it lies in the inability of the bourgeoisie to remove these fetters upon the release of productive forces in agriculture. 1. These figures are taken from A. Venkateswaralu, Regional variations in Agrarian structure 1953-54 to 1970..71 M. Phil thesis J.N.U. 2. For a careful discussion of the proportion of agricultural labourers in the total work-force engaged in agriculture in 1951, See Daniel and Alice Thorner, Land and Labour in India, Bombay 1965. 3. The term "semi-feudal capitalism" was originally used by Lenin to describe junker capitalism. For a fuller discussion "of the issue. See Utsa Patnaik, The Agrarian Question and the Development of Capitalism in India (Delhi, 1986). 4. For a comprehensive discussion of land Reform measures. See P.C. Joshi, Land Re forms in India, New Delhi, 1982. 5. V.M. Dandckar, "Poverty, Employment and Growth", paper presented to the Boston seminar on the Indian economy, published in Eonomic and Political Weekly, Review of Agriculture, 1986. 6. For the colonial period I have relied on the standard estimates of G. Blyn, Agricultural Trends in India 1891-1947 (Philadelphia, 1966) and S. Sivasubramanian, "Estimates of output in undivided India" in V.K.R.V. Rao et. al. ed. Papers on National Income and Allied Topics Vol 1 (London, 1960). 7. For a detailed discussion of the estimates which follow, See my paper "Some Comments on the Recent Growth Performance of the Indian Economy", forthcoming in EPW Special Number, 1987. 8. R. Thamarajakshi, "Role of Price Incentives in Stimulating "Agricultural Production", in D. Ensminger ed. Food Enough or Starvation for Millions, New Delhi, 1977. 9. A.S. Kahlon and D.S. Tyagi, Agricultural Price Policy in India, Delhi. 1983. 10. M. Kalecki, "Problems of Financing Economic Development in a Mixed Economy" in Selected Essays on the Economic Growth of the Socialist and Mixed Economy (Cambridge, 1971). 11. It is this which provided the backdrop for Ashok Mitra's Terms of Trade and Class Relations, (London 1977), and S. Chakravarty's "Reflections on the Growth Process of the Indian Economy". 12. See the paper by Utsa Patnaik, "Some Perspectives on Agrarian Development in India", presented at the Social Scientist seminar on "Four Decades of Economic Development", New Delhi, Nov. 18-20, 1987. 13. Among Galbraith's many writings on the subject, reference may be made to Economics and the Public Purpose.