A Comment K Jayaraman THE crucial part of the excellent study by V M Dandekar and Nilakantha Rath 2 and 9, 1971) is Section VII in which the authors have given their solution to the problem of poverty in India "within the framework of private property". Having ruled out the communist solution of socialising all means of production and thus ensuring a socially equitable distribution of income, the authors have ruled out the other alternative as well, viz, of distributing equitably the means of production themselves: (i) land