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The changing identity of rural India : a socio-historic analysis /

The book explores the pattern of rural development in contemporary India from a multidisciplinary and historical perspective.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Basile, Elisabetta, Mukhopadhyay, Ishita
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi, India ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2009.
Colección:Anthem South Asian studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Capital and labour transformations in shaping rural development in India / Elisabetta Basile and Ishita Mukhopadhyay
  • Identifying livelihoods in rural India / Ishita Mukhopadhyay
  • The institutional embeddedness of Indian rural capitalism / Elisabetta Basile
  • Social capital and poverty reduction strategies : the case of rural India / Claudio Cecchi, Luca Molinas, and Fabio Sabatini
  • An overview of Indian microfinance / Shirsendu Mukherjee and Sukanta Bhattacharya
  • Income-based estimates vs. consumption-based estimates of poverty : evidence from rural Tamil Nadu after liberalization / Marco Cavalcante
  • Occupational diversification of the rural workers : some results from field surveys in West Bengal / Sankar K. Bhaumik
  • Literacy and externalities in human development / Rabindranath Mukhopadhyay and Sudeshna Ghosh
  • The social context of politics in rural West Bengal (1947-92) / Mario Prayer
  • Agrarian expansion under colonial rule and its impact on a tribal economy / Sanjukta Das Gupta
  • Acting on institutions to preserve agricultural biodiversity : the Syngenta controversy in Chhattisgarh / Christine Lutringer
  • The conflicting opinions of the colonial bureaucracy over the Paraiyans right over 'waste' in late 19th century Tamil Nadu / Raj Sekhar Basu
  • Appendix 1. Socio-economic indicators of rural India.