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Kerala: A Return to the Future

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Chapter 6 examines the Indian state of Kerala, a small state in the southwest of the subcontinent that had been the site of ongoing reforms beginning almost immediately after its formation in 1956. The chapter discusses topics including The Kerala Model, the Green Revolution and Green Technologies, the 1969 Land Reform Amendment, the Caste system, farmer suicides, declining rural incomes and farmer suicides, and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

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Jim Handy

Jim Handy is a professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan. He has written extensively on Guatemalan history and more generally on peasant economies, agrarian reform and political economy. He has been president of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, which awarded him a Distinguished Fellow recognition in 2015, particularly for his contribution to graduate student training. He has received numerous teaching awards and the J.W. George Ivany Internationalization Award by the University of Saskatchewan.