68 SOCIAL SCIENTI9 8. For an analysis see Chapter 7 in M.A. Oommen, Essays on Kerala Economy as cited in Note 6. 9. N.T. Ram Mohan and K. Ravi Ram, 'Of Cochin Stock Exchange and What it Means', Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 6,1990, Vol. XXV No. 1. 10. P.G.K., Panikar and C.R. Soman, Health Status of Kerala: The Paradox of Economic Backwardness and Health Development, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, 1984 p. 46. It is recalled (p. 50) that in 1928, the Government of Travancore requested the Rockefeller Foundation to depute an expert to tender advice to the government in the field of public health. The Foundation sent an expert and a programme of work, public health education and propaganda was prepared. See also P.N. Man Bhat and S. Irudaya Rajan, 'Demographic Transition in Kerala Revisited' in Economic and Political Weekly, Sept. 1-8, 1990, Vol. XXV, Nos 35 & 36. 11. P.C. Sarkar, 'Regional Imbalances in Indian Economy over Plan Periods', Economic and Political Weekly, March 12, 1994, Vol. XXIX, No. 11. 12. Chapter 1 in M.A. Oommen, Essays on Kerala Economy as cited in Note 6. 13. H.R. Sharma, 'Distribution of Landholding in Rural India, 1953-54 to 1981-82:. Implications for Land Reforms' Economic and Political Weekly, March 26, 1994, Vol. XXIX, No. 13 Review of Agriculture. 14. C.T. Kurien, Growth and Justice: Aspects of India's Development Experience, Oxford University Press, Madras, 1992, Chapter, 3. The explanation is that in the 8th Round a plot of land was considered owned by a household only if the latter had a right of permanent heritable possession. But in the 17th Round the category of ownership was widened to include land held under grant or lease, or assigned by the government on a long-term basis. The latter definition has continued since then. 15. Except when other sources are cited, I rely on the papers on Kerala published in Economic and Political Weekly in September 1990 as cited in Note 4. 16. The figures are taken from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, Basic Statistics Relating to the Indian Economy: 1993, Vol 2, States, September 1993. 17. K.N. Raj in Introduction, K.N. Raj et al eds.. Essays on the Commercialization of Indian Agriculture, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1985. 18. See M.S.S. Pandian, Political Economy of Agrarian Change in Nanchilnaftu the Late Nineteenth Century to 1939, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1990). 19. 'The society of this age was certainly not unacquainted with either buying or selling. But it did not, like our own, live by buying and selling'. Marc Bloch, Feudal Society, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1965, Vol. I p. 67. 20. See World Bank, The East Asian Miracle—Economic Growth and Public Policy, Oxford University Press for World Bank, New York, 1993; Mukul G. Ashor, 'Some Aspects of Role of State in Singapore' Economic and Political Weekly, April 2, 1994 (Vol. XXXIX, No. 14. 21. Centre for .Monitoring Indian Economy, Performance of Agriculture by Major States, 1967-68 to 1991-92, August 1993. 22. Chapter I 23. CMIE, op.cit., (as in Note 21). 24. Census of Population 1991, Scries-1, paper 2 of 1992. 25. For some helpful statistics see T.N. Krishnan, 'Wages, Employment and Output in Inker-related Labour Markets in an Agrarian Economy—A Study of Kerala', Economic and Political Weekly, June 29, 1991, Vol. XXVI No. 26 Review of Agriculture. 26. P.C. Sarkar, Joc.cit., (As in Note 11)