@Article {
	Title 				= {The Agrarian Question amidst Populist Welfare},
	Author 				= {M Vijayabaskar},
	Journal 			= {Economic and Political Weekly},
	Year 				   = { 2017},
	Month 				= {18},
	Number 				= { Issue No. 46},
	Volume 				= {Vol. 52},
	Abstract 			= {Tamil Nadu’s emergence as a developmental model rests on its ability to combine economic growth with poverty reduction and high levels of human development. Scholars attribute such outcomes to a set of social policies implemented in response to a long history of “democratic action.” It is, however, not clear whether such intervention through social policies can also enable a more inclusive trajectory of economic development. This paper uses the analytical lens of the “agrarian question” to examine this aspect of the state’s development. In doing so, the paper argues that while social welfare nets are crucial to negotiate the vulnerabilities of a market-driven growth process and open up new political and economic spaces, they are inadequate in a context where the secondary sector has not been able to absorb labour to the extent anticipated.
},
	Publisher 			= {Economic and Political Weekly},
	Type 				= {Journal}
  }