The Rural-Urban Nexus in India's Economic Transformation

ISBN-13: 9781032318912 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Opis

This book describes and analyzes the transformation of Indian economy taking into account historical changes and present dynamics of the rural-urban nexus. It will be of interest to researchers studying South Asian History, Economics, Politics, Geography, Sociology and Anthropology, Development Studies and Economic History.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1. A Long-term Trend of Rural India; Chapter 2. Crop Specialization and Long-Term Productivity Growth in Indian Agriculture: A District-Level Analysis; Chapter 3. Thirty Years of Change: Tamil Villages Re-surveyed; Chapter 4. Recent Changes in Employment Structure in India; Chapter 5. Food Consumption of Low-income Households in India in the Era of Economic Growth; Chapter 6. Dairy Industry Modernization and the Changing Rural Economy of India; Chapter 7. Disparities in Convergence: Rural–Urban Child Welfare in India; Chapter 8. Environmental Problems of Food Production and Consumption: A District-level Analysis of Nitrogen Flow; Chapter 9. Power Sector Reform and Blackouts in India; Chapter 10. India in the World Economy: Inferences from Empirics of Economic Growth

O autorze

Tsukasa Mizushima is a historian in the fields of Indian economic history and global history and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Japan. His recent publications include Sustainable Development in India: Groundwater Irrigation, Energy Use, and Food Production, co-edited with Koichi Fujita (Routledge, 2020) and Hinterlands and Commodities: Place, Space, Time and the Political Economic Development of Asia over the Long Eighteenth Century, co-edited with George Bryan Souza and Dennis O. Flynn (2014).