LAND REFORMS IN INDIA 61 Action, pi. , • 8 Planning Commission, First Five Year Plan, 1951-56, pp 187-188. 9 Planning Commission, Second Five Year Plan, 1956-61, pp 195-196. ' ° All India Congress Committee, From Bombay to Delhi, 1970, pp 221-222. 11 Planning Commission, Fourth Five Tear Plan, 1969-74, A Draft Outline, p 174. 12 K Mathew Kurien, The Struggle, Seminar, April 197 i, p 27. 13 Ministry of Home Affairs, Research and Policy Division, The Causes and Nature of Current Agrarian Tension, 1969. 14 The members of the Committee were: Fakhruddin All Ahmed, C Subramaniam, Mohan Kumaramangalam, H R Gokhale, V P Naik, Barkatullah Khan, Dev Raj Urs, K Karunakaran, and Rajendra Kumari Bajpai. 15 All India Congress Committee, Congress Marches Ahead-VI, Minutes of the Congress Working Committee Meeting, July 22, 1972, pp 20-21. 16 Planning Commission, op.cit., pp 7-11 and 25. 17 Planning Commission, Fourth Five Year Plan, 1969-74, p 175. 18 David Hapgood (ed.), Report of the Conference on Productivity and Innovation in Agriculture in the Underdeveloped Countries, Centre for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pp 185-186. 19 Planning Commission, op.cit., p 25. 20 Kalyan Dutt, Structure of Rural Economy and Inflation, Mainstream, June 29, 1947 p 10. 21 Planning Commission, op.cit., pp 2-3. 22 Ibid,? 4. 23 Communist Party of India, National Council Resolutions, August 1972, p 22. 24 Statesman, New Delhi, August 24, 1974. 25 Lok Sabha Debates, April 24, 1974. 2 6 This figure given by the Agriculture Minister in the Parliament is a gross underestimate. The number of agricultural labourers and poor peasants is much larger, Lok Sabha Debates, April 24, 1974. 27 Planning Commission, op.cit., p 68. 2 8 Robert Wade, Bleak Outlook for Land Reform in India, Motherland, New Delhi, September 8, 1972. 29 Indian Express, New Delhi September 8, 1972. 80 Planning Commission, op.cit., 17-18. 81 Communist Party of India (Marxist), Central Committee Resolution on Certain Agrarian Issues March 1973. 82 Planning Commission, op.cit., p 25.