B B Mohanty

Agrarian Transformation in Western India

Economic Gains and Social Costs

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Produktbeschreibung

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 experts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781138324282
• ISBN-10: 1138324280
• Artikelnr.: 54576295

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.