The Rural-Urban Nexus in India's Economic Transformation

Herausgeber: Mizushima, Tsukasa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781032318912
• ISBN-10: 1032318910
• Artikelnr.: 65614786

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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