Tax Burden on Farm and Non-Farm Sectors in India: An Inter-Sectoral and Inter-Class Analysis

This book provides a detailed, comparative analysis of the relative tax burdens on the farm and non-farm sectors in India in the 1960s. It addresses the key question of mobilising the resources for transforming agriculture-dependent, backward economies into industrial economies.

S.L. Shetty is author of Structural Regression in the Indian Economy Since the Mid-Sixties and Microfinance in India (2012). He was former Founding Director of the EPW Research Foundation, India and has also served as head of the Research Department at The Reserve Bank of India.