The changing identity of rural India
Subtitle: a socio-historic analysis
By: edited by Elisabetta Basile, Ishita Mukhopadhyay
Series: Anthem South Asian studies; Anthem South Asian studies
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Delhi, India; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9788190757027
Subjects: Rural development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Capital and labour transformations in shaping rural development in India / Elisabetta Basile and Ishita Mukhopadhyay; title: Identifying livelihoods in rural India / Ishita Mukhopadhyay; title: The institutional embeddedness of Indian rural capitalism / Elisabetta Basile; title: Social capital and poverty reduction strategies : the case of rural India / Claudio Cecchi, Luca Molinas, and Fabio Sabatini; title: An overview of Indian microfinance / Shirsendu Mukherjee and Sukanta Bhattacharya; title: Income-based estimates vs. consumption-based estimates of poverty : evidence from rural Tamil Nadu after liberalization / Marco Cavalcante; title: Occupational diversification of the rural workers : some results from field surveys in West Bengal / Sankar K. Bhaumik; title: Literacy and externalities in human development / Rabindranath Mukhopadhyay and Sudeshna Ghosh; title: The social context of politics in rural West Bengal (1947-92) / Mario Prayer; title: Agrarian expansion under colonial rule and its impact on a tribal economy / Sanjukta Das Gupta; title: Acting on institutions to preserve agricultural biodiversity : the Syngenta controversy in Chhattisgarh / Christine Lutringer; title: The conflicting opinions of the colonial bureaucracy over the Paraiyans right over 'waste' in late 19th century Tamil Nadu / Raj Sekhar Basu; title: Appendix 1. Socio-economic indicators of rural India.