Land, Assets, Incomes and Employment in Three Villages in Andhra Pradesh The Marxist, XXVI 2, April–June 2010 INTRODUCTION This article 1 reports on the results of three village surveys conducted in Andhra Pradesh in 2005-06, and deals, in particular, with the distribution of household holdings of land and other assets, forms of tenancy, household incomes (including farm business incomes) and household employment and earnings from manual labour. Although it draws on the material in our recent book Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Andhra Pradesh: A Study of Agrarian Relations, the article reports only on a subset of the larger body of information in the book, and we invite those who want a fuller treatment of socio- economic issues in the villages, qualitative and quantitative, to go to the book. Historically, the Left in India has urged scholarship to turn its face to the countryside, to conduct specific studies of socio-economic conditions and changes there, and to assess and evaluate these conditions and changes. Since 2005, the Foundation for Agrarian Studies has been engaged in a Project on Agrarian Relations in India V.K. RAMACHANDRAN, VIKAS RAWAL, MADHURA SWAMINATHAN