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100			_aSharma, Shishir
245			_aMoneylender's positive image: paradigms and rural development
260			_c2003
300			_ap.1713-720.
362			_a26 Apr
520			_aThis article appraises the changes in development thought and practice regarding the image of moneylenders and their future role in the agricultural economy and rural development in India. The emphatic push towards a positive image of the moneylender which has become very visible internationally has not been so visible in Indian rural finance practice. This article points out that the positive image of the moneylender has survived all through the centuries of Muslim and British domination in India and the push from negative to positive paradigm in development thought needs only to resuscitate a latent image which has been lying under the dominant negative one. A historical awareness of the process of paradigm-building is essential in unravelling this development enigma and in understanding its underlying ideological investments. The question of the moneylender's socio-economic image is very important in shaping rural finance policies. - Reproduced.
650			_aRural development
650			_aAgricultural economics
650			_aCredit
700			_aChamala, S.
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a56572
999			_c56572 _d56572