Discuss Ambedkar’s view on small holdings.

Owing land is considered a status symbol in India. Agricultural holdings in India are dominated by small holdings. Land distribution patterns show that there is an unequal distribution of land holdings and a vast area of land is in the hands of upper caste Hindus and other higher castes in India. Various land reform legislations have been conceived and implemented by state governments to achieve a fair and rationalized distribution of land holdings. But these legislations have not altered the agrarian structure sufficiently.

Ambedkar studied the problems of small holdings in India and suggested remedies which are quite relevant even today. His views on land holding were published in paper titled “Small Holdings in India and their Remedies” published in September 1918 by Journal of the Indian Economic Society, Vol. 1. In the said paper he pointed out that the average size of holdings varies from 25.9 acres in the Bombay Presidency to an acre or two in Pimpla Saudagar, near Pune. Again these small holdings were greatly fragmented, For instance,

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