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,...

The empricial study of farmers concludes that majority of the male farmers of South Gujarat are in ancestral occupation of farming. Farmers possess preliminary education level, they hold on an average 10.48 vighas of land. Farmes have age-old experience in cultivation of sugarcane. Surprisingly,...