The Second Five-Year Plan noted that India would ‘provide sound foundations for the development of cooperative farming, so that over a period of 10 years or so, a substantial portion of agricultural lands are cultivated on cooperative lines’.10 Fortunately for India, collectivisation of agriculture was prevented due to resistance from farmers along with leaders like Sucheta Kripalani and Chaudhary Charan Singh—who went on to become prime minister in 1979.
