Professor Dandekar on Indian Agriculture

For a few years before his demise on July 30, 1995, Prof. Dandekar had been working on a three-volume study of the Indian economy based on his own writings. That the whole gamut of the economic problems of India over the entire post-Independence period could be encompassed mainly through one's own writings is a tribute to Dandekar's comprehensive intellect which left almost no area untouched. The volume under review is the first in the series and deals with developments in agriculture. The second on Population, poverty and Employment, has just been broughtout [1996]. The third, unfortunately, may not see the light of the day since Dandekar could not complete giving final touches to the material before he passed away. One hopes that the Indian School of Political Economy puts together a selection of his articles on Production, Trade and Finance (as Dandekar himself had named it).