Agrarian Transformation in Western India: Economic Gains and Social Costs

ISBN-13: 9780367733001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 362 str.

B. B. Mohanty

Opis

This book examines the economic gains and social costs of agrarian transformation in India. Lucid and topical, it will be useful to scholars and researchers of agrarian studies, rural sociology, social history, agricultural economics, development studies, political economy, political studies and public policy as also planning and policy expert

Spis treści

Introduction. 1. From Colonialism to Neoliberalism: The Trajectory of Agrarian Transformation 2. Regional Disparity in Agricultural Development 3. Agricultural Modernisation and Social Inequality 4. Land and Agriculture among Scheduled Castes and Tribes 5. Neoliberal Reforms, Agrarian Change and Rural Women 6. Rural Poverty and Rural Labour Migration 7. Changing Response to Agrarian Crisis: From Rebellion to Suicides 8. ‘We are like the living dead’: Farmer Suicides in Maharashtra. Concluding Reflections.

O autorze

B. B. Mohanty is Professor of Sociology at Pondicherry University in Puducherry, India. His areas of interest include agrarian transition and crisis in India. He is the Editor of Agrarian Change and Mobilisation (2012) and Critical Perspectives on Agrarian Transition: India in the Global Debate (2016).