The changing identity of rural India : a socio-historic analysis /: a socio-historic analysis. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Elisabetta Basile, Ishita Mukhopadhyay.
• Other Names: Basile, Elisabetta; Mukhopadhyay, Ishita
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New Delhi, India New York, NY : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 311 pages)
• Subjects: 306.09; Rural development -- India; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Rural development; India; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781843318231; 1843318237; 1283378787; 9781283378789
• Related ISBNs: 9788190757027; 8190757024
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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