Articles by C H Hanumantha Rao

Demand for foodgrains in India has been declining and some of this decline indicates an increase in consumer welfare. The decline has been sharper in the rural areas where improvements in infrastructure make other food items and non-food commodities available. Though cereals (used here as proxy for foodgrains) consumption has increased among the poorest 30 per cent of the population, even this group is near the saturation point.

Beyond Getting Prices Right C H Hanumantha Rao Economic Liberalisation in India: Analytics, Experience and Lessons by Deepak Nayyar (R C Dutt Lectures on Political Economy, 1993; Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 1996); Orient Longman, pp 72, Rs 70.

Agriculture can work as the biggest safety net in the process of adjustment by softening the rigours of inflation as well as by Raising income and employment for the vulnerable sections of the population. Broadening the domestic agricultural base by stepping up public investment in irrigation, research and extension and in social development such as education and skills formation holds the key to the exploitation of possible gains from trade as well as to ensuring that such gains are widely shared by different regions and classes of farmers.

C H Hanumantha Rao Japanese Agriculture under Siege: The Political Economy of Agricultural Policies by Yujiro Hayami; Macmillan Press, London; pp 145.

Writing about Hindu-Muslim Riots in India Today Gyanendra Pandey The dominant nationalist historiography that insists on the totalising standpoint of a seamless nationalism needs to be challenged not only because of its interested use of categories such as 'national' and 'secular' but also because of its privileging of the so-called 'general' over the particular, the larger over the smaller, the 'mainstream' over the 'marginal