Subject(s): Income distribution in India. -- Poverty in India in Prevention. -- India in Economic policy in 1947 -- Perspective development 1961-1976 implications of planning for a minimum level of living, poverty, inequality and unemployment -- Data and measurement : Pattern of income distribution in India, validity of NSS estimates of consumption expenditure, data on distribution of consumption expenditure in India, size distribution of per capita personal income in India -- Nature of poverty : Aspects of inequalities in living standards in rural India, note on variation in dietary levels of households in rural India, minimum level of living- statistical examination, inequality and poverty in rural India -- Policy : Rural poverty, land redistribution and development strategy , income distribution, postscript to income distribution, banking development since nationalization and reduction in disparities, redistributive role of taxation in India, right to gainful work, inequality into distribution of public education and health services in west Bengal -- Poverty research forty years later : Poverty targeting through public goods, poverty and inequality in India, poverty revisited, short and unreliable history of poverty measurements