Small farmers are being proletarianised ‐ a note onpersistence and polarizationby Bhaduriet al.

Is Peasantry Dead? Neoliberal Reforms, the State and Agrarian Change in Bangladesh

“…More importantly, had population growth truly been the main cause, we would not have seen the heightened state of inequality in landownership over the years. Many researchers, as well as the World Bank, report a higher concentration of landownership among big landowners in rural areas of Bangladesh, which they argue has led to a polarization within the landholding agrarian classes (Jannuzi and Peach ; Rahman ; Rahman ; World Bank ). These researchers attribute the fragmentation of farm sizes to this polarization of landownership.…”

Power, Property Rights and the Issue of Land Reform: A General Case Illustrated with Reference to Bangladesh

“…Bangladeshi economists studying the land market have never raised this as an issue, but they have identified a very different analytical question. Despite the Bangladeshi land market being very active, there is no systematic evidence over time of land getting concentrated in any particular size category (van Schendel 1982;Bhaduri et al 1986;Mahbub Ullah 1996;Rahman 1986Rahman , 1988Pandian 1987;M.M. Khan 1987;Feldman and McCarthy 1987).…”