Anita Gill
This book is an in-depth study of informal rural credit markets. The study traces the reasons behind the pervasiveness of informal credit markets to interlinkages between credit market and other agrarian markets. The study has been carried out in Punjab, which is agriculturally the most advanced state of India. The presence of commission agents, or 'arhtiyas', as the dominant form of informal lenders here, carrying out credit deals interlinked with sale of ...