Critical Perspectives on Agrarian Transition (eBook, PDF)

India in the global debate
Redaktion: Mohanty, B. B.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book critically evaluates the relevance of classical debate on agrarian transition and extends the horizon of contemporary debates in Indian context, linking national trends with specifications of regional experiences. The author highlights changes in Indian agriculture along the axis of capitalist development and analyzes its effects across the country.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317310396
• Artikelnr.: 44758562

Autorenporträt

B. B. Mohanty is Professor, Department of Sociology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India. His research interests are agrarian transition, farmer suicides and local governance. His recent work includes the edited volume Agrarian Change and Mobilisation (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors List of abbreviations List of tables & Figures
Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Agrarian transition:
from classic to current debates Part 1 Agrarian Transition: Theoretical
Discourse 1. Back to the future? Marx, modes of production and the agrarian
question 2. Revisiting agrarian transition: reflections on long histories
and current realities 3. Contours of the agrarian question: Towards
political question of 'the peasantry' in contemporary India Part 2 Global
Capitalism, Neoliberalism and Changing Agriculture 4. Capitalist
trajectories of global interdependence and welfare outcomes: the lessons of
history for the present 5. Declining credibility of the neo-liberal state
and agrarian crisis in India 6. Neo-liberal reforms, agrarian capitalism
and the peasantry Part 3 Agrarian Transition: Regional Responses 7.
Changing gender relations among Gounders in western Tamil Nadu villages 8.
Agro-ecological double movements? Zero budget national farming and
alternative agriculture after the neoliberal crisis in Kerala 9. Stressed
commerce and accumulation process: a study of agrarian transition in West
Bengal 10. Punjab's Small Peasantry: Thriving or Deteriorating? Index