Land and Labour in India

Land and Labour in India was first published in 1962. This seminal work remained out of print for long and its inclusion in the Chronicle Classics Series was the initiative of Alice Thorner and Sabyasachi Bhattacharya who has also written an exhaustive and illuminating Introduction for this edition. The essays in this volume were written between 1952-60. divided into three sections ‘Land and Labour’, ‘Trends’ and ‘Census and Sample Survey’, the essays trace the trajectory of India’s economic development as well as the contemporary situation in the 1950s. Many of the papers in the volume laid the foundations for Daniel Thorner’s later works. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya’s Introduction interweaves the continuing importance of the book for the third millennium reader with the story of the Thorners’ stay in India and their political exile from their own country, the USA.