Structural Transformation and Agrarian Change in India - Couverture rigide

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Djurfeldt, Goran; Sircar, Srilata

 
9781138913677: Structural Transformation and Agrarian Change in India
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ISBN 10 : 1138913677 ISBN 13 : 9781138913677
Editeur : Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Göran Djurfeldt is Senior Professor at the Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden.

Srilata Sircar is currently a Doctoral student at the Department of Human Geography, Lund University, Sweden.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138913677
ISBN 13 
9781138913677
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
188
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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gpsr@libri.de

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9780367871994: Structural Transformation and Agrarian Change in India

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0367871998 ISBN 13 :  9780367871994
Editeur : Routledge, 2019
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