Book Review

Land Reforms in India: Volume 9-Tamil Nadu: An Unfinished Task

The volume under review is the ninth title in the series Land Reforms in India sponsored by Lalbahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie. The volume is published a decade after the first volume in the series-on Bihar-was published in 1993! The seminars, on which the volume is based, were held in 1991 and 1994. Interestingly, the seven papers selected from those presented in the seminars account for only a third of the volume. The rest of the papers are, apparently, contributed by scholars who had not participated in the seminars, but were invited later by the editor to write on selected themes relating to land issues in Tamil Nadu. While the editor needs to be commended for this initiative, the volume seems to reflect the diminishing interest in land reforms, except the few passionately committed to the ideology and development strategy underlying land reforms.