Chithelen, Ignatius - In: Economic & political weekly : a Sameeksha Trust publ. 18 (1983) 52/53, pp. A121-A134
A non-Brahmin rich peasant elite, engaged in sugarcane cultivation for about half a century, had by the 1950s established a powerful position for themselves in the socio-political and economic life for Maharashtra. This power, which they continue to wield, has its chief economic base in sugar,...
