The Changing Identity of Rural India: A Socio-historic Analysis

Front Matter
	Half Title
	Series Page
	Title
	Copyright
	Contents
	Acronyms and Abbreviations
	About the Authors
Main Body
	1. Introduction. Capital and Labour Transformations in Shaping Rural Development in India, by Elisabeth Basile and Ishita Mukhopadhyay
		1.1 Institutional Embeddedness and Economic Diversification in Rural India
		1.2 Neo-Liberalism and Capital/Labour Transformations in India
		3. The Contribution of this Book to the Analysis of Indian Rural Economy
		References
	Part 1. Indian Rural Transformations
		2. Identifying Livelihoods in Rural India, by Ishita Mukhopadhyay
			2.1 Rural Livelihoods in the Making
			2.2 Rural Livelihoods in India
			2.3 What the Pattern of Rural Livelihoods Tell?
			References
		3. The Institutional Embeddedness of Indian Rural Capitalism, by Elisabetta Basile
			3.1 An Eclectic Approach to the Analysis of Contemporary Capitalism
			3.2 The Rural Non-Farm Sector in India
			3.3 Trajectories of Rural Class Formation
			3.4 Religion-Based Ideologies and Social Production Relations
			3.5 The 'Quality' of Indian Rural Non-Farm Capitalism
			References
	Part 2. Inequality in Rural India
		4. Social Capital and Poverty Reduction Strategies: The Case of Rural India, by Claudio Cecchi, Luca Molinas and Fabio Sabatini
			4.1 The Concept of Social Capital and the Problems Related to Poverty and Inequality
			4.2 Poverty, Income Inequality in Rural India: Is There a Policy Trade-Off?
			4.3 Social Capital and International Development Strategies in Rural India
			4.4 Concluding Remarks
			References
		5. An Overview of Indian Microfinance, by Shirsendu Mukherjee and Sukanta Bhattacharya
			5.1 Introduction
			5.2 Beginning of Microfinance in India
			5.3 RBI's Working Group in NGOs and SHGs
			5.4 SHGs and Microfinance in India
			5.5 Growth of SHGs in India
			5.6 Achievements of SHGs
			5.7 Different Microfinance Practices in India
			5.8 SHGs and Grameen Bank Groups: What are the Differences?
			5.9 Rural Banking Sector and Indian Microfinance
			5.10 Concluding Comments
			References
		6. Income-based Estimates vs Consumption-based Estimates of Poverty: Evidence from Rural Tamil Nadu after Liberalization, by Marco Cavalcante
			6.1 The Decline of Poverty
			6.2 The Actual Trends in India
			6.3 The First Mistake: Technical Incongruence
			6.4 The Second Mistake: The Theoretical Assumptions
			6.5 Consumption and Poverty in Rural Tamil Nadu
			6.6 Conclusion
			References
		7. Occupational Diversification of the Rural Workers: Some Results from Field Surveys in West Bengal, by Sankar K Bhaumik
			7.1 Data and Methodology
			7.2 Some Aspects of Diversification of Rural Workers
			7.3 Annual Employment and Earnings
			7.4 Factors Determining Rural Workers' Choice of Occupation
			7.5 Summary of Findings and Policy Implications
			Appendix
			References
		8. Literacy and Externalities in Human Development, by Rabindranath Mukhopadhyay and Sudeshna Ghosh
			8.1 Introduction
			8.2 Concept of 'Effective Literacy' Extended to School Education; Role of Mothers' Education and Child Labour
			8.3 Positive Externality from Female Education and Negative Externality from Child Labour
			8.4 Empirical Support: Experience from Major Indian States
			8.5 Conclusion
			References
	Part 3. Social Movements and Identities
		9. The Social Context of Politics in Rural West Bengal (1947-92), by Mario Prayer
			9.1 On Society and Culture in Colonial Bengal
			9.2 Rural Society in the Congress Era
			9.3 The Congress System and the New Agricultural Strategy
			9.4 Social Change and the Rise of the Left in Countryside
			9.5 The Early 1990s: A Continuing Political Culture?
			9.6 Conclusion
			References
		10. Agrarian Expansion under Colonial Rule and its Impact on a Tribal Economy, by Sanjukta Das Gupta
			10.1 Introduction
			10.2 Traditional Land Use Pattern and the Classification of the Arable
			10.3 Extension of the Arable Frontier
			10.4 Scarcity and Distress
			10.5 Agrarian Crisis and the Search for New Pastures
			10.6 Conclusion
			Appendix 1
			Appendix 2
			References
		11. Acting on Insititutions to Preserve Agricultural Biodiversity: The Syngenta Controversy in Chhattisgarh, by Christine Lutringer
			11.1 Institutions, Change and Social Movements
			11.2 Global Governance and Agricultural Biodiversity
			11.3 The 'Syngenta Affair'
			11.4 An Analysis of the Protest Movement
			11.5 Conclusion: Managing Ex Situ Seed Collections in India
			References
		12. The Conflicting Opinions of the Colonial Bureaucracy over the Paraiyans Right over 'Waste' in late 19th Century Tamil Nadu, by Raj Sekhar Basu
			12.1 Contextualizing the Colonial Concept of 'Waste'
			12.2 The Conflicts over 'Waste' in Late Nineteenth Century Tamil Nadu
			12.3 The Differing Perceptions of the Reformist and the Conservative Colonial Bureaucracy
			12.4 The Final Victory of Conservatism
			12.5 The Unchanging Version of the Colonial State
			12.6 Concluding Observations
End Matter
	Appendix 1