Agrarian transformation in western India: economic gains and social costs

Table of Content

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

This book examines the economic gains and social costs of agrarian transformation in India. The author looks at three phases of agrarian transformation: colonial, post-colonial, and neoliberal. This work combines macro and microeconomic data, economic and noneconomic phenomena, and quantitative and qualitative aspects while exploring the context of historical and contemporary changes with special reference to Maharashtra in western India. It discusses regional disparities in agricultural development, issues of modernisation and social inequality, land-owning among scheduled castes and tribes, women in agriculture, pattern of labour migration and farmer’s suicides, and documents the experiences and conditions of the rural poor and socially weaker sections to provide a comprehensive understanding of the significant changes in agrarian rural economy of western India. It also discusses contemporary development policy and practices and their consequences.
Lucid and topical, this volume 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 well as planning and policy experts.


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