The changing identity of rural India

The changing identity of rural India a socio-historic analysis / [electronic resource] : edited by Elisabetta Basile, Ishita Mukhopadhyay. - New Delhi ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009. - xi, 311 p. : 3 maps. - Anthem South Asian studies . - Anthem South Asian studies. .

Includes bibliographical references.

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.


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Rural development--India.


India--Rural conditions.


Electronic books.

HN690.Z9 / C6276 2009eb