Class, Politics, and Agrarian Policies in Post-liberalisation India
Title | Class, Politics, and Agrarian Policies in Post-liberalisation India PDF eBook |
Author | Sejuti Das Gupta |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2024-05-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1009481339 |
Studies the changing political economy of India post liberalisation in the 90s.
Class, Politics, and Agrarian Policies in Post-Liberalisation India
Title | Class, Politics, and Agrarian Policies in Post-Liberalisation India PDF eBook |
Author | Sejuti Das Gupta |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Agriculture and state |
ISBN | 9781009481328 |
"Has there been a shift in agrarian policies in India since liberalisation? What has been the impact of these policies on new class formation and consolidation of existing ones? Did proprietary classes with close relations to the state influence the formulation of these policies? Do class-state relations have to be uniform across nations under globalisation? Studying post-liberalisation India, this book answers these questions by scrutinising the tenets of agrarian policies of three states - Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, and Karnataka. In doing so, it analyses the political economy of agricultural policy and the class-state relations operating in the country. Two common arguments encountered in post-liberalisation India are that politics ought to be studied through the lens of identity, caste, language, and religion, and that under globalisation, peculiarities of the nation state have been ironed out. While arguments around these themes are seen in existing literature, the way class interest is consolidated as political settlement and the state's role in creating and maintaining classes have received limited attention. Studies on Indian politics have focused mainly on communal and caste identities, and this book adds to the understanding by arguing that class plays a critical role in agrarian politics and politics in general; class is defined as an economic and political criterion. It concludes that class and its relation to the state has come to occupy a defining role in the politics of new India and, thus, it becomes imperative to conduct this study through the lens of political economy"--
State and Capital in Post-Colonial India
Title | State and Capital in Post-Colonial India PDF eBook |
Author | Chirashree Das Gupta |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2016-11-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107102243 |
""Discusses the specific relationship between state and capital in forging the dynamic role of institutions of the state and market that form the basis of capital accumulation in economies undergoing transition"--Provided by publisher"--
Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists
Title | Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists PDF eBook |
Author | Trent Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2018-07-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108425100 |
In theory, chemical-free sustainable agriculture not only has ecological benefits, but also social and economic benefits for rural communities. By removing farmers' expenses on chemical inputs, it provides them with greater autonomy and challenges the status quo, where corporations dominate food systems. In practice, however, organisations promoting sustainable agriculture often maintain connections with powerful institutions and individuals, who have vested interests in maintaining the status quo. This book explores this tension within the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.
Rural Society in Southeast India
Title | Rural Society in Southeast India PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Gough |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-01-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0521040191 |
This book is a comparative study of caste and class in two small villages in the Thanjāvūr district of southeast India based on fieldwork done by the author in 1951-3. Differing from the usual village study, Gough's work traces the history of the villages over the past century and examines the impact of colonialism on the district since 1770. The volume's theoretical significance lies in its attempt to define more clearly the characteristics of rural class relations, particularly addressing the question whether Indian agrarian relations are still precapitalist. This study not only provides a vivid account of village life in southeast India in the 1950s (to be followed by a later study done in the 1970s), but also contributes to theory concerning modes of production, class structures in the Third World, and underdevelopment.
Dispossession Without Development
Title | Dispossession Without Development PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Levien |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0190859156 |
Winner of the 2019 Global and Transnational Sociology Best Book Award, American Sociological Association Winner of the 2019 Political Economy of World System (PEWS) Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association Received Honorable Mention for the 2019 Asia/Transnational Book Award, American Sociological Association Since the mid-2000s, India has been beset by widespread farmer protests against land dispossession. Dispossession Without Development demonstrates that beneath these conflicts lay a profound shift in regimes of dispossession. While the postcolonial Indian state dispossessed land mostly for public-sector industry and infrastructure, since the 1990s state governments have become land brokers for private real estate capital. Using the case of a village in Rajasthan that was dispossessed for a private Special Economic Zone, the book ethnographically illustrates the exclusionary trajectory of capitalism driving dispossession in contemporary India. Taking us into the lives of diverse villagers in "Rajpura," the book meticulously documents the destruction of agricultural livelihoods, the marginalization of rural labor, the spatial uneveness of infrastructure provision, and the dramatic consequences of real estate speculation for social inequality and village politics. Illuminating the structural underpinnings of land struggles in contemporary India, this book will resonate in any place where "land grabs" have fueled conflict in recent years.
China's Agrarian Transition
Title | China's Agrarian Transition PDF eBook |
Author | René Trappel |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2015-12-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0739199374 |
More than thirty years ago the political turn that brought the dismantling of agricultural collectives and exclusive rights to small plots of farmland for rural families initiated a historic return to smallholding in the People’s Republic of China. Today, agriculture in China is changing again. In many villages smallholder farming is giving way to large agricultural enterprises. This book explores this latest transformation of Chinese agriculture. It traces how the peasantry’s frustration with the farming conditions, the priorities of national and local political agents and the changes in the management of collective land since the return to family-based farming have paved the way for a unique Chinese agrarian transition. The argument is based on careful analysis of agricultural politics since the early 1980s and data gathered in three field trips to Shandong, Sichuan, and Guizhou Provinces between 2008 and 2010. The findings highlight the importance of institutional path-dependencies and strategic government intervention (or its absence) for economic transformation. China’s Agrarian Transition is one of the first comprehensive accounts of the latest developments in agriculture in the People’s Republic and will provide a stimulating read for political scientists, sociologists, economists, and experts on China interested in the ongoing transformation of China’s countryside.