V.k. Ramachandran

This book discusses agrarian relations in the Lower Cauvery delta, historically part of the "rice bowl" of south India, based on socio-economic studies of two villages in the region. The two villages, surveyed in 2018–19 by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies, are Venmani and Palakurichi, located in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu. Venmani was the site of an atrocity in...