Agrarian Change And Urbanization In Southern India

Author : Seema Purushothaman,Sheetal Patil
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
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Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811083365

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Agrarian Change and Urbanization in Southern India by Seema Purushothaman,Sheetal Patil Pdf

This book takes readers on a journey through the evolution of agricultural communities in southern India, from their historical roots to the recent global neo-liberal era. It offers insights into a unique combination of themes, with a particular focus on agrarian change and urbanisation, specifically in the state of Karnataka where both aspects are significant and co-exist. Based on case studies from Karnataka in South India, the book presents a regional yet integrated multi-disciplinary framework for analysing the persistence, resilience and future of small farmer units. In doing so, it charts possible futures for small farm holdings and identifies means of integrating their progress and sustainability alongside that of the rest of the economy. Further, it provides arguments for the relevance of small holdings in connection with sustainable livelihoods and welfare at the grass roots, while also catering to the welfare needs of society at the macro level. The book makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship of agrarian as well as peri-urban transdisciplinary literature. For agrarian academics, students and the teaching community, the book’s broad and topical coverage make it a valuable resource. For development practitioners and for those working on issues related to urbanisation, urban peripheries and the rural–urban interface, this book offers a new perspective that considers the primary sector on par with the secondary and tertiary. It also offers an insightful guide for policymakers and non-government organisations working in this area.

Author : T. K. Venkatasubramanian
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Agriculture and politics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Political Change and Agrarian Tradition in South India, C. 1600-1801 by T. K. Venkatasubramanian Pdf

Author : Ramchandran Nair,S. Ramachandran Nair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Land reform
ISBN : UCAL:B3897476

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Social Consequences of Agrarian Change by Ramchandran Nair,S. Ramachandran Nair Pdf

Author : Goran Djurfeldt,Srilata Sircar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317429746

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Structural Transformation and Agrarian Change in India by Goran Djurfeldt,Srilata Sircar Pdf

The landlord and his emaciated labourer are symbolic of Indian agriculture. However, this relationship has now changed as large landowners have fallen from their superior position. This volume explores how this emblematic pair is becoming a thing of the past. Structural Transformation and Agrarian Change in India investigates whether family labour farms are gaining prominence as a consequence of the structural transformation of the economy. The authors work alongside Weberian methodology of ideal types and develop different types of family farms; among them family labour farms that rely mainly on family workers, contrasted with capitalist farms that depend on hired labour. Agriculture is shrinking as a part of the total GDP at the same time as agricultural labour is shrinking as part of the total labour force. The changing agrarian structure is explored with the use of unique long-term survey data and statistical models. Results show that India is approaching farm structures that are typical of East and South East Asia, with pluriactive smallholders as the norm. This book successfully criticizes popular narratives about Indian agricultural development as well as simplistic evolutionist, Marxist or neoclassical prognoses. It is of great importance to those who study development economics, development studies and South Asian economics.

Author : Marshall M. Bouton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400857845

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Agrarian Radicalism in South India by Marshall M. Bouton Pdf

The author finds that agrarian radicalism develops most readily in a way analogous to industrial class struggle: through the economic clash of homogeneous and polarized groups within the agrarian sector. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Anne Siebert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000608922

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Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture by Anne Siebert Pdf

This book analyses the interplay of urban agriculture and food sovereignty through the innovative lens of the "critical urban food perspective". It focuses on the mobilisation of urban food producers as a powerful response to highly exclusionary dynamics in the agri-food system including insufficient food access and disastrous land dispossessions. This volume particularly aims to fill the gap in the current literature by engaging with food sovereignty discourses and movements in urban areas. Related activism of urban food producers in the Global South remains underrepresented in practice and in literature. Therefore, this book engages with the lived realities of an urban agriculture initiative in George, South Africa. Building on theoretical notions of the "right to the city" and "everyday forms of resistance", the book illuminates how deprived food producers expose inequalities and propose alternatives. The findings of in-depth empirical research reveal that dwellers perceive farming as a mean to overcome historical segregation, high food prices, and unhealthy nutrition. Hence, they breathe life into food sovereignty in practice and suggest further alliances beyond the city. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of alternative food politics, agrarian transformation, and food movements as well as rural-urban intersections.

Author : Vishal Narain,Dik Roth
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030790356

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Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia by Vishal Narain,Dik Roth Pdf

This open access book explores the implications of urbanization in South Asia for water (in-) security in the peri-urban spaces of Dhaka and Khulna in Bangladesh, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune in India, and Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The book looks into specifically peri-urban water security issues in a context of rapid urbanization and social-environmental changes, including the changing climate and its emerging impacts. It demonstrates how urbanization processes change water flows between rural and urban areas, the implications of this processes for the water security of peri-urban populations, and how new institutions and technologies develop to mediate the relationships between peri-urban communities and water. The book seeks to further the debate on peri-urban water security, including what constitutes the peri-urban, socially differentiated access to water in peri-urban spaces, interventions for improving water access, and emerging forms of cooperation and conflict related to water access in a context of urbanization and climate change. As such, this book is an interesting read for academics with various disciplinary backgrounds, professionals working in the worlds of national and international policy, NGOs, activist groups, research and development institutes, and individual readers interested in water security and urbanization.

Author : Barbara Harriss-White,S. Janakarajan
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857287410

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Rural India Facing the 21st Century by Barbara Harriss-White,S. Janakarajan Pdf

Written by an international team of young scholars, 'Rural India Facing the 21st Century' draws together a profound analysis of a broad range of issues to provide a masterly overview of overall rural development. Its highly original methodology and findings will be of considerable interest for development policy.

Author : Jan Breman
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520365995

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Patronage and Exploitation by Jan Breman Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Author : Goran Djurfeldt,Srilata Sircar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317429739

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Structural Transformation and Agrarian Change in India by Goran Djurfeldt,Srilata Sircar Pdf

The landlord and his emaciated labourer are symbolic of Indian agriculture. However, this relationship has now changed as large landowners have fallen from their superior position. This volume explores how this emblematic pair is becoming a thing of the past. Structural Transformation and Agrarian Change in India investigates whether family labour farms are gaining prominence as a consequence of the structural transformation of the economy. The authors work alongside Weberian methodology of ideal types and develop different types of family farms; among them family labour farms that rely mainly on family workers, contrasted with capitalist farms that depend on hired labour. Agriculture is shrinking as a part of the total GDP at the same time as agricultural labour is shrinking as part of the total labour force. The changing agrarian structure is explored with the use of unique long-term survey data and statistical models. Results show that India is approaching farm structures that are typical of East and South East Asia, with pluriactive smallholders as the norm. This book successfully criticizes popular narratives about Indian agricultural development as well as simplistic evolutionist, Marxist or neoclassical prognoses. It is of great importance to those who study development economics, development studies and South Asian economics.

Author : Tajamul Haque,Amar Singh Sirohi
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Agricultural cooperative credit associations
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Agrarian Reforms and Institutional Changes in India by Tajamul Haque,Amar Singh Sirohi Pdf

Author : Sai Balakrishnan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812296303

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Shareholder Cities by Sai Balakrishnan Pdf

Economic corridors—ambitious infrastructural development projects that newly liberalizing countries in Asia and Africa are undertaking—are dramatically redefining the shape of urbanization. Spanning multiple cities and croplands, these corridors connect metropolises via high-speed superhighways in an effort to make certain strategic regions attractive destinations for private investment. As policy makers search for decentralized and market-oriented means for the transfer of land from agrarian constituencies to infrastructural promoters and urban developers, the reallocation of property control is erupting into volatile land-based social conflicts. In Shareholder Cities, Sai Balakrishnan argues that some of India's most decisive conflicts over its urban future will unfold in the regions along the new economic corridors where electorally strong agrarian propertied classes directly encounter financially powerful incoming urban firms. Balakrishnan focuses on the first economic corridor, the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, and the construction of three new cities along it. The book derives its title from a current mode of resolving agrarian-urban conflicts in which agrarian landowners are being transformed into shareholders in the corridor cities, and the distributional implications of these new land transformations. Shifting the focus of the study of India's contemporary urbanization away from megacities to these in-between corridor regions, Balakrishnan explores the production of uneven urban development that unsettles older histories of agrarian capitalism and the emergence of agrarian propertied classes as protagonists in the making of urban real estate markets. Shareholder Cities highlights the possibilities for a democratic politics of inclusion in which agrarian-urban encounters can create opportunities for previously excluded groups to stake new claims for themselves in the corridor regions.

Author : Kaoru Sugihara,Peter G. Robb,Haruka Yanagisawa
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 070070471X

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Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India by Kaoru Sugihara,Peter G. Robb,Haruka Yanagisawa Pdf

The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history.

Author : Anil Kumar Vaddiraju
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000294446

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Urban Governance and Local Democracy in South India by Anil Kumar Vaddiraju Pdf

This book examines the issues of urban governance and local democracy in South India. It is the first comprehensive volume that offers comparative frameworks on urban governance across all states in the region: Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The book focuses on governance in small district-level cities and raises crucial questions such as the nature of urban planning, major outstanding issues for urban local governance, conditions of civic amenities such as drinking water and sanitation and problems of social capital in making urban governance work in these states. It emphasizes on both efficient urban governance and effective local democracy to meet the challenges of fast-paced urbanization in these states while presenting policy lessons from their urbanization processes. Rich in empirical data, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, public administration, governance, public policy, development studies and urban studies, as well as practitioners and non-governmental organizations.

Author : Velayutham Saravanan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350130845

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Water and the Environmental History of Modern India by Velayutham Saravanan Pdf

This important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the early 21st century from a historical perspective. In doing so, the book addresses several important questions: * Did policy-makers visualise the future demand while diverting water from distant places or other basins? * Was efficient use ensured when the water was diverted or was it diverted in a manner that resulted in pollution and serious damage to the entire river basin? * Were natural flows taken care of in order to preserve the ecology and environment? * What were the factors that aggravated the competing demand for water and what were the consequences for the future? In the context of the current discourse on the competing demands for water, this book takes the debate forward, expanding the horizon of environmental history in the process. Until now, agriculture, industry and domestic water supply and their consequences for ecology, the environment and livelihoods have been given scant attention. Velayutham Saravanan's comprehensive account of both the colonial and post-colonial periods corrects this shortcoming in the field's literature and gives a holistic understanding of the problem and its full historical roots.