History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land

Tenure Systems in India

Abhijit Banerjee; Lakshmi Iyer
The American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 4. (Sep., 2005), pp. 1190-1213.
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