Description
This study is concerned with the problem of poverty in India. It is a problem of low national income and its unequal distribution; of slow pace of development and inequitable distribution of the small gains of development. It quickly became apparent that knowledge of how the benefits of development have been shared among various segments of the population is crucial to an understanding of many other issues. It also became clear that an effective study of Poverty could only be done by an Indian scholar who had intimate knowledge of India s total development progress and who is recognized within India as an authority in this field. In our search for such a scholar, discussions with numerous Indian scholars and officials led us to Dr V M Dandekar, Director of Indian School of Political Economy, Poona and the Ford Foundation contracted with the School to prepare such a study under the senior authorship of Dr Dandekar.
