Thinking Social Science in India
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Alice Thorner
Contributors: Sujata Patel (Editor); Jasodhara Bagchi (Editor); Krishna Raj (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Published: May 23, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780761996002
Subjects: Development economics; Economics, Finance, Business and Industry; Sociology; Business & Economics; Agriculture and state; Development - Economic Development; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social conditions; Business/Economics; India; Anthropology - Cultural; Business & Economics / Economic Development; 1947-; Women
First sentence: For at least three decades Chayanov has been an icon for non-Marxist social scientists who are concerned about the fate of small peasants in developing countries in the face of capitalist onslaught, but are equally averse to Soviet-type collectivisation as an alternative.