Structural Transformation and Agrarian Change in India

ISBN-13: 9780367871994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 178 str.

Goran Djurfeldt; Srilata Sircar

Opis

The landlord and his emaciated labourer are symbolic of Indian agriculture. However, this relationship has now changed as large landowners have fallen from their superior position. This volume explores how this emblematic pair becoming a thing of the past. It also investigates whether family labour farms are gaining prominence as a consequence o

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1. CAPITALISM AND FAMILY FARMING 

CHAPTER 2. STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION AND FARMING

CHAPTER 3. URBANIZATION AND AGRARIAN CHANGE: A VIEW FROM THE MARGINS

CHAPTER 4. WHAT YOU MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT REGRESSION

CHAPTER 5. DRIVERS OF AGRARIAN TRANSFORMATION

CHAPTER 6. VOLATILITY IN LAND DISTRIBUTION

CHAPTER 7. RELATIVE CHANGE IN INCOME

CHAPTER 8. CONCLUSIONS: NO PLACE FOR FAMILY FARMS?

APPENDIX 1: DATA SOURCES

APPENDIX 2: MULTILEVEL MODELLING WITH MLWIN

APPENDIX 3: DETAILED MODEL RESULTS AND ANALYSES OF RESIDUALS

APPENDIX 4: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

O autorze

Göran Djurfeldt is Senior Professor at the Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden.

Srilata Sircar is currently a Doctoral student at the Department of Human Geography, Lund University, Sweden.