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An Agrarian History of South Asia
Originally published in 1999, David Ludden's book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view of history, it treats South Asia not as a single civilization territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian regions, each with their own social, cultural and political histories. The discussion begins during the first millennium, when farming communities displaced pastoral and tribal groups, and goes on to consider the development of territoriality from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Subsequent chapters consider the emergence of agrarian capitalism in village societies under the British, and demonstrate how economic development in contemporary South Asia continues to reflect the influence of agrarian localism. As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in South Asia, the book promises to be a valuable resource for students of agrarian and regional history as well as of comparative world history.
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Combating hunger and achieving food security
\"Discusses the major causes of chronic and hidden hunger and emphasizes on the need to redesign farming system to increase food production\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Capital, interrupted
With the Patel caste of western India as his central case, Vinay Gidwani interrogates established concepts of value, development, and the relationship between capital and history. Capitalism, he argues, is not based on the operation of a series of laws, but is rather an assemblage of contingent logics stitched together. Capital, Interrupted unsettles understandings of concepts such as hegemony and agency, and, ultimately, rethinks the constitution of capitalism.
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Agricultural Prices and Production in Post-reform India
Post-reform India has seen a decline in agricultural growth as well as supply–demand imbalance and rising prices. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of domestic and international prices and trade since 1980–81, covering the past quarter of a century. Backed with rich data, it provides comparisons between the pre- and post-liberalisation policies and their effect on farm profitability, domestic prices and prices variability, and examines their possible role in determining the trajectory of agricultural growth since 1991.
The book will appeal to students, scholars and researchers of agriculture studies, economics, finance, and development studies, as well as policy makers and agriculture experts.
Ashutosh Kumar Tripathi is Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, Haryana, India.
‘[A] detailed and rigorous study of the Indian experience just before and after liberalisation.’ — C. P. Chandrasekhar, Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
‘[E]legant and systematically organised . . . The [study] is based on sound analytical techniques and logic.’ — Ramesh Chand, Director, National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi
Foreword C. P. Chandrasekhar . Acknowledgements . 1. Introduction 2. Indian Agriculture under Economic Reforms: A Preliminary Review 3. Agricultural Price Policy and Farm Profitability: Examining Linkages 4. International Price Trends and Volatility 5. Agricultural Trade: Policies and Patterns 6. Trade Competitiveness of Indian Agriculture: A Comparison of Domestic and World Prices 7. Decomposing Variability in Agricultural Prices 8. Evaluation and Conclusion. Appendix I: Methodology for Measuring Volatility . Appendix II: The Decomposition Model . Appendix III: Tables . Appendix IV: Figures . About the Author. Index
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The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times
The study of the quest for the good life and the morality and value it presupposes is not new. To the contrary, this is an ancient issue; its intellectual history can be traced back to Aristotle. In anthropology, the study of morality and value has always been a central concern, despite the claim of some scholars that the recent upsurge of interest in these issues is new. What is novel is how scholars in many disciplines are posing the value question in new ways. The global economic alignments of the present pose many political, moral and theoretical questions, but the central issue the essays in this collection address is: how do relatively poor people of the Australia–Pacific region survive in current precarious times? In looking to answer this question, contributors directly engage the values and concepts of their interlocutors. At a time when understanding local implications of global processes is taking on new urgency, these essays bring finely honed anthropological perspectives to matters of universal human concern—they offer radical empirical critique based on intensive fieldwork that will be of great interest to those seeking to comprehend the bigger picture.
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The making of an Indian Ocean world-economy, 1250-1650 : princes, paddy fields, bazaars
\"To counter Eurocentric notions of long-term historical change, this book draws upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation; traces inter-state linkages and the growth of commercialization without capitalism; 'industrious revolution' in India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia\"-- Provided by publisher.
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An agrarian history of South Asia / David Ludden
\"David Ludden's book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view of history, it treats South Asia not as a single civilisation territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian regions, each with its own social, cultural, and political histories. In contemporary South Asia, the book argues, economic development and social movements continue to reflect the influence of agrarian localism and the shifting fortunes of agrarian regions with histories which can be traced back to medieval times.\" \"As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in South Asia, the book promises to be a valuable resource for students of agrarian and regional history, as well as of comparative world history.\"--Jacket.
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