Dilemma of Poverty

V M Rao Poverty, Agriculture and Economic Growth by B M Bhatia; Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1977; pp xii + 260; Rs 50.
THIS readable and light-weight publication brings together twenty-five articles contributed by B M Bhatia, mostly to the Statesman, over the period December 1975 to June 1976. The articles bear the stamp of a patient and perceptive scholar and many of them could be as much at home in the pages of an academic journal. The author has taken considerable pains in preparing the volume to fit the mate- rial together into a consistent whole; to can fairly claim that he is telling a story and not merely providing glimpses of newsy events.