Village Republics

accounts acres active agricultural Andhra Pradesh animals appointed benefits big farmers block canal caste cent collective action common irrigators common-pool resources conflict cooperation corporate organization cost crop theft cultivators distributary dry villages Economic fallow field channel field guards flocks fodder free riding Government of Andhra grazing groundnut Harijan harvest herders households Hyderabad incentives income India Indian village individual institutions irrigated area irrigated villages Irrigation Department Jeremy Jackson Kottapalle Kottapalle type Kottapalle's Kurnool District labour landowners less levy lightly irrigated crops liquor manure Nayaka normally Nowk Olson's open-field outlet Panchayat peasant political Polur population population density problems Pulla Linga rainfall rainfed crops response risk road rules scattered second season sheep and goats Siva Reddy social soil sorghum South Indian standing crops standing fund stubble sugar tail-end villages Tamil Nadu Venkat Swamy Venkat Swamy Reddy village council village fund village's water supply