Peasant Farming and Growth of Capitalism in Indian Agriculture
Author: Y. V. Krishna Rao
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 488
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Author: Y. V. Krishna Rao
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Harriss
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased On Village Field Research In Mid 1970S, This Book Is Concerned With The Development Of Agrarian Capitalism And The Persistence Of Small-Scale Peasand Production - An Application Of The Method Of Historical Materialism - Examines Critically Both Of Lenin And Chayanov - Role Of Merchant Capital In The Reproduction Of Small-Scale Production - Explains Agrarian Structure Of A Region Of South India - Relations Between Material Production And Caste Ideology - 8 Chapters - 4 Appendices - References And Index.
Author: Krishnarao Y V K.
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Hamilton
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Utsa Patnaik
Publisher: Tulika Publishers
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 482
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers in this volume, though covering a wide range of fields, from economic theory to economic history, the problems of socialist economies and the dynamics of Indian agriculture, have nonetheless a basic unity. This arises not only from the Marxist perspective underlying them but also from an attempt to engage with the present as history . This present , above all, is marked by the phenomenon of imperialism whose conceptual presence permeates many of the essays. Its role in the development of capitalism in the advanced countries, its need and attempt to recolonize the third world, the contradictions arising from the unresolved agrarian question in third-world societies, and the minimum conditions for their completing the long transition to emancipation: such are the issues which concern the author. The concepts of class and the mode of production are developed and used for exploring these issues. Utsa Patnaik is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has written extensively on political economy, capitalism and the agrarian question. Her publications include The Agrarian Question and the Development of Capitalism in India (1986), Peasant Class Differentiation (1987), Agrarian Relations and Accumulation (editor, 1990), and Chains of Servitude: Bondage and Slavery in India (joint editor, 1985).To [readers], the work will be valuable from the historical, analytical and academic perspectives. The book encapsulates almost all the major issues focused upon by Marxist political economists with regard to the Indian economy. The Telegraph
Author: Utsa Patnaik
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ashok Rudra
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. Ghosh
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anil Vaddiraju
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014-08-26
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 1443866490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn large parts of the developing world, peasant to industrial worker and rural to urban transition is a huge question mark on the face of the political economies of these societies. In India alone, nearly seventy percent of its 1.2 billion population lives in rural areas dependent on agriculture and allied activities. Though the context is different, the magnitude of the transition is similar in present day China. In many parts of Latin America and Africa, this transition is incomplete. Rural populations continue to persist, even in the times of globalisation – a so called shrinking world – and the digital age. In the context of developing countries in general and India in particular, it is difficult to find this transition in the lines of European history. Hence, the main concern of this book is with the large, independent self-cultivating peasantry and the agriculture-associated, non-landowning peasantry. In the present and in these contexts, the process of the growth of towns, merchandise, cities and industry, does not occur in a sequence of succession – characteristic to European development – owing to colonial backdrops and historical specificities. Whatever urbanisation happens in these countries, too, does not seem to be inclusive and facilitative of the rural to urban transition. The variance with the European context also appears to be the reason for the often observed non-absorption of the peasantry. These large differences across spatial, historical and structural contexts also indicate that one should consider the processes in non-Euro-centric terms. The processes of the transformation from agrarian to non-agrarian society – rural to urban societies, therefore – are inevitably plural in nature and, while retaining their specificities, push us into considering the point that the European model, or the English model, of transition is only one important variant of the possible modes of transition to capitalism, which necessitates close empirical study and a considered generalization; a point illuminated by the diversities that characterise European history itself. However, we need to urgently address this problem, as overwhelmingly large sections of the developing world not only persist in rural bewilderment, but they also aspire to urban modernity, as does the rest of the world. This book is written with a certain empathy towards rural societies, that they too, while transcending the ascriptive particularities and backwardness, should access all the benefits of civilised urban modernity; that the increasingly globalising humanity can offer and, yes, bask in the ‘bright lights of the city’.
Author: Barbara Harriss-White
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-10
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1317673964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecognising the different ways that capitalism is theorised, this book explores various aspects of contemporary capitalism in India. Using field research at a local level to engage with larger issues, it raises questions about the varieties and processes of capitalism, and about the different roles played by the state. With its focus on India, the book demonstrates the continuing relevance of the comparative political economy of development for the analysis of contemporary capitalism. Beginning with an exploration of capitalism in agriculture and rural development, it goes on to discuss rural labour, small town entrepreneurs, and technical change and competition in rural and urban manufacturing, highlighting the relationships between agricultural and non-agricultural firms and employment. An analysis of processes of commodification and their interaction with uncommodified areas of the economy makes use of the ‘knowledge economy’ as a case study. Other chapters look at the political economy of energy as a driver of accumulation in contradiction with both capital and labour, and at how the political economy of policy processes regulating energy highlights the fragmentary nature of the Indian state. Finally, a chapter on the processes and agencies involved in the export of wealth argues that this plays a crucial role in concealing the exploitation of labour in India. Bringing together scholars who have engaged with classical political economy to advance the understanding of contemporary capitalism in South Asia, and distinctive in its use of an interdisciplinary political economy approach, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Politics, Political Economy and Development Studies.