Описание: Tales of Peasants, Traders, and Officials: Contracting in Rural Andhra Pradesh, 1980–82 stems from a research project in the subfield of rural economic organization, with a focus on credit and irrigation, and on how public policy in these domains influenced agricultural development. The fieldwork was carried out in three states of the Indian Union between 1980 to 1982, including 14 villages in Andhra Pradesh. The survey covered villagers' dealings in the markets for labor, tenancies, credit, and crops. It revealed not only diverse contractual forms in those markets, but also their interplay with access to credit and its terms. Understanding what motivates agents to contract in a particular way—or not at all—is essential in such a study. At the beginning and toward the close of the survey work, the principal investigators conducted interviews with focus groups, some respondents in the household sample, and various public officials, who were encouraged to speak freely. The first part of the monograph comprises an introductory chapter and two long travelogues, which provide structured accounts of the proceedings of those interviews. Next are formal analyses of various alternative contractual arrangements and the villagers' choices among them. These are partly inductive; they draw on what respondents had to say about their options and decisions as well as received theory. Four topics are treated in detail: (1) the choice between employment as a casual laborer and as an attached farm servant; (2) the choice between sharecropping and fixed-rents paid in kind, with special reference to land irrigated by percolation wells; (3) the closely related matter of loans, subsidies, and corruption in connection with the profitability of investments in wells; and (4) the tying of loans for the cultivation of commercial crops to the arrangements for marketing them. The central importance of villagers' outside options and access to credit emerges clearly.
A comparative analysis of two contrasting strategies in the implementation of Community Natural Resource Management (CNRM) programmes in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh
This book examines whether the introduction of CNRM schemes in rural India made an impact on poverty alleviation. These programmes were implemented in various phases and manners in different states over the last two decades and their comparative performance as well as successes and failures are analysed. Inspired by the Millennial Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2000, the book focuses on participatory irrigation management, watershed development, joint forest management, and inland fishing cooperatives.
This book is indispensable to scholars of development studies, environmental studies, community resource management, and sociology.
Автор: Kaur, Mallika Название: Faith, gender, and activism in the punjab conflict ISBN: 3030246736 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030246730 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 4890.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Mallika Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at the center of Punjab`s human rights movement: Baljit Kaur, who armed herself with a video camera to record essential evidence of the conflict;
Описание: Even as they produce food for society and its people, lives dependent on agriculture are barely able to make ends meet. The cost of food production far outweighs the returns; the peasantry is falling prey to indebtedness, both institutionalized and non- institutionalized. It is facing the severest of challenges, with even dalit landless labourers becoming victims of indebtedness and succumbing to suicide,
Based on a study done in eight districts of the Malwa region of the Punjab, this book uses quantitative data along with field work, narratives and interviews with peasant unions. Over136 families have been interviewed where women as wives and mothers of the deceased speak of the aftermath of the suicide.
The book outlines the distress borne by the family, including women, the children and the elderly in the aftermath of peasant suicides. By doing so, it interrogates the split between public and private; production and social reproduction; work and family. It highlights the determining character of capitalist-intensive agriculture in today's crisis times by focusing on women's reality and renewed hardships in a caste, class and patriarchal society.
Автор: Aman Sidhu, Inderjit Singh Jaijee Название: Debt and Death in Rural India: The Punjab Story ISBN: 9353881145 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353881146 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 6336.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Debt and Death in Rural India is a study of farmer suicides in rural Punjab from the mid-1980s up to 2008. Based on comprehensive original research work, it examines various factors ranging from central to state policies and critically analyses political, economic and social trends that led to the dismal condition of the farmers between 1988 and 2008.
This study presents a unique trajectory on the issue of farmer suicides and contextualises the problem within a historical and geographical framework. It includes interviews of family members of a number of farmers who committed suicide in the subdivision of Sangrur district of Punjab, India, which constitutes the area of the study.
This outstanding work analyses the interplay of economic and political forces and recommends concrete policy measures to enable Punjab to break out of the vicious farmer-suicide cycle.
Land Policies for Equity and Growth is perhaps the first book of its kind on land issues, including land reforms, in one of India’s most populous states—Uttar Pradesh. In its 18 chapters—authored by scholars who have spent several decades researching land issues in UP—the book sets out land policies to promote agricultural growth with equity in a state that accounts for a very significant share of the rural poor of India.
The book discusses both old and new issues. While it examines the historical consequences of the Zamindari Abolition Act (1950) and the Land Ceiling Legislations (1960 and 1972) in UP, it also looks at new, emerging issues in land and agrarian relations, like land use policy (or rather its absence) in the state. It also discusses the need for modernising land records, computerising them and, most importantly, ensuring titling on the basis of ground-truthing actual landownership.
This book attempts to relate land policy issues to the policy discourse in UP. It is based upon an analysis of well known as well as new data sources. The authors examine data from old National Sample Surveys as well as the most recent one (2009–2010). The authors also carried out primary surveys in the four well-defined agro-climatic zones of UP, the findings of which are reported in the book.
Chapter 1. Introduction.- PART I: Growth, Employment and Inequality.- Chapter 2. Deciphering Growth and Development: Past and Present.- Chapter 3. Labour Market Outcomes and Inclusive Development.- Chapter 4. Growth, Employment and Inequality.- Chapter 5. Intra-state Disparities in Economic and Social Development.- PART II: Poverty, Vulnerability and Inclusion.- Chapter 6.Poverty and Inequality: A Disaggregated Analysis.- Chapter 7. Inclusion and Marginalization: Economic & Food Security Dimensions.- Chapter 8. Migration, Remittances, and Poverty Reduction.- Chapter 9. Violation Civil Rights, Atrocities and Deprivation: Responses of State Machinery.- PART III: Agriculture Development: Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 10.Agricultural Growth: Performance, Constraints and Strategy for Future Development.- Chapter 11. Public and Private Capital Formation in Agriculture and Contribution of Institutional Credit.- Chapter 12. Access to Credit and Indebtedness among Rural Households: Implications for Farm Income and Poverty.- PART IV: Industrial Development and Informality.- Chapter 13. Regional Pattern of Industrialization and Urbanization.- Chapter 14. Micro and Small Enterprise Development in Uttar Pradesh.- Chapter 15. Employment and Livelihood Potential of Rural Non-Farm Informal Enterprises.- PART V: Human Development Concerns.- Chapter 16. Trends in Private and Public Schooling.- Chapter 17. Health Status: Progress and Challenges.- Chapter 18. Burden of Private Healthcare Expenditure.
Автор: Shahrukh Rafi Khan Название: Military and Denied Development in the Pakistani Punjab ISBN: 1783082895 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783082896 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 11880.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Military power has long been a serious obstacle to a sustained democracy in Pakistan. The authors investigate the Pakistani military's retrogressive agrarian interventions in the Punjab, and outlines a change, as recognised by society, in the military's rightful function within the economy.
Set against the social resentment instigated by the military's agricultural land grabbing, and a burgeoning resistance to the military's overbearing and socially unjust role in Pakistan's economy, this book supplements a larger body of work detailing the military's hand in industrial, commercial, financial and real estate sectors. Any gain in economic autonomy wielded by the military makes it less answerable to civilian oversight, and makes it more likely to act to protect its economic interests.
The survival of civilian rule in Pakistan, which is critically important for the foreseeable future, requires a fundamental reordering of the balance of power between state institutions, and between state and society. Pakistan, long encumbered by the military yoke, has witnessed its first peaceful transition from one political administration to another; and in a move congenial to the consolidation of this democratic process, 'The Military and Denied Development in the Pakistani Punjab' exposes the nefarious nature of the military's predation, and signals a move for the military to be contained to its constitutionally mandated role - defence.
Название: Rural Development in Punjab ISBN: 1138380261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138380264 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7501.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores agricultural development in Punjab, explaining why despite its reputation as one of the most successful rural development experiments in recent years, this success story has been going astray. It examines key issues: stagnating productivity, reduced farm sizes, falling household incomes and depleting groundwater resources.
Описание: They cover important issues such as the crisis of agrarian transition, agrarian markets and distributive justice, employment growth and transition to non-agriculture sectors, fiscal policy, external factors in economic transformation, and perspectives on rejuvenating the state`s economy.
Автор: Dushka Saiyid Название: Muslim Women of the British Punjab ISBN: 1349268879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349268870 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9362.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a study of the forces which brought about a change in the status and position of the Muslims of Punjab during the British rule of the province, from 1849, up to its independence in 1947.
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