In 2005, the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) initiated the Project on
Agrarian Relations in India (PARI), with the aim of studying village-level
production, production systems and livelihoods, and the socio-economic
characteristics of different strata of the rural population by means of detailed
village surveys. The present volume is the third in a series of field reports on
surveys conducted by FAS in three villages in Karnataka: Alabujanahalli in
Mandya district, Siresandra in Kolar district, and Zhapur in Gulbarga district.
A census survey was conducted in the three selected villages. A unique feature
of these surveys is the estimation of household incomes based on detailed
information on income