Empirical study disproved Bhaduri’s semi-feudal landlord thesis

Evidence

But in 1974, Bliss and Stern (1982) began a close study of Palanpur, a village in western Uttar Pradesh, which showed that Bhaduri and those who argued like him were no longer correct. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1608

Categorization

• QUESTION: What exactly did Bliss and Stern observe that refuted the credit-and-employment-bondage model? Worth chasing to see which assumption failed.
• XREF: A clean case study of a theory being falsified by field observation — the diagnostic pattern of Hardin’s argument about how institutions fail and are replaced.