, through employment generation, and indirectly through an impact on agricultural wages. The paper illustrates that in Palanpur … previously disadvantaged and most vulnerable segments of village society have gained access to non-farm employment opportunities …

-farm activities takes them out of the village. In this paper, we take this first step by examining trends in employment outside the … there has been a rise in self-employment and non-farm casual labour; activities that take villagers outside Palanpur on a … and that the structural link between land and employment has not changed over time. …