Subject(s): Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Economic history -- Colonial period -- post-Colonial period -- Theoretical,methodological and historical perspectives : Theory of agrarian change, feudalism and Indian history, Asiatic mode of production -- Empirical analysis for he colonial period : Temporary zaminidari settlements, dual land markets, land market and the structure of tenancy relations, relative profitability of rent ownership and direct cultivation, land relations and the credit market,pre-colonial agrarian socio-economic structure in Sambalpur,agrarian social and economic changes, emerging contrasts inland relations and agrarian development -- Empirical review for the post-colonial period : Contrasts in agrarian socio-economic structure and agrarian developemnt between cuttack and sambalpur in post colonial period, historical paths of capitalist development in agriculture