Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

B. K. Guha Thakurta

Abstract

The present study is devoted to an examination of the nature and course of the consumption of cereals for West Bengal in general and Calcutta in particular for the years between 1939 and 1960-61. The period covered by the study is significant in many ways so far as the consumer behaviour of cereals in West Bengal is concerned.

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B. K. Guha Thakurta

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Since the publication of the pioneering work by Prof. Dandekar and Prof. Rath, many research workers have been interested in studying the level of poverty in the different regions of India. The present paper aims at making a similar study in respect of the city of Calcutta.

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B. k. Guha Thakurta

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IT is interesting to study the relationship between the consumption expenditure of a particular item and the total consumption expenditure, of a. group of people for any point of time. A comparison of such relationship for the same group of people at different points of time is even more interring - especially so when the intervening periods between such points of time are scenes of important social and economic changes.

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