Description: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 micro economic data, economic and non-economic phenomena, 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 also planning and policy experts.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Agrarian Transformation in Western India: Economic Gains and Social Costs. To get started finding Agrarian Transformation in Western India: Economic Gains and Social Costs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Agrarian Transformation in Western India: Economic Gains and Social Costs
Description: 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 micro economic data, economic and non-economic phenomena, 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 also planning and policy experts.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Agrarian Transformation in Western India: Economic Gains and Social Costs. To get started finding Agrarian Transformation in Western India: Economic Gains and Social Costs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.