ISBN:
9788132224310
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (380 pages)
,
color illustrations, maps (mostly color)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Exploring urban change in South Asia
Series Statement:
Exploring Urban Change in South Asia Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Middle India and rural development
DDC:
330.095482
Keywords:
Economic development
;
Rural development
;
Sociology, Urban
;
Human Geography
;
Electronic books
;
Ārani (India) Economic conditions 20th century
Abstract:
Middle India and Rural-Urban Developmentexplores the socio-economic conditions of an 'India' that falls between the cracks of macro-economic analysis, sectoral research and micro-level ethnography. Its focus, the 'middle India' of small towns, is relatively unknown in scholarly terms for good reason: it requires sustained and difficult field research. But it is where most Indians either live or constantly visit in order to buy and sell, arrange marriages and plot politics. Anyone who wants to understand India therefore needs to understand non-metropolitan, provincial, small-town India and its economic life. This book meets this need. From 1973 to the present, Barbara Harriss-White has watched India's development through the lens of an ordinary town in northern Tamil Nadu, Arni. This book provides a pluralist, multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspective on Arni and its rural hinterland. It grounds general economic processes in the social specificities of a given place and region. In the process, continuity is juxtaposed with abrupt change. A strong feature of the book is its analysis of how government policies that fail to take into account the realities of small town life in India have unintended and often perverse consequences. In this unique book, Harriss-White brings together ten essays written by herself and her research team on Arni and its surrounding rural areas. They track the changing nature of local business and the workforce; their urban-rural relations, their regulation through civil society organizations and social practices, their relations to the state and to India's accelerating and dynamic growth. That most people live outside the metropolises holds for many other developing countries and makes this book, and the ideas and methods that frame it, highly relevant to a global development audience. Barbara Harriss-White is Emeritus Fellow and Professor of Development Studies at Oxford University, Senior Research Fellow in Area Studies, Oxford University, coordinator of the South Asia Research Cluster at Wolfson College, Oxford and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Alone or with others she has written and edited 35 books and over 225 book chapters and journal papers, almost all on India. Her research interests span India's small towns, agriculture and its energetics, the informal capitalist economy and its regulative politics and policy, and many aspects of deprivation.
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Maps; Editor and Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; A Long-Term Urban Study; Contents; 1 Introduction: The Economic Dynamism of Middle India; 1.1 Middle India; 1.1.1 Metropolitanization Versus Subaltern Urbanization; 1.2 Informal Urban Economies and Economic Order; 1.3 The Dynamism of Middle India; 1.4 Case Studies; 1.4.1 Arni: An Urban Biography; 1.4.1.1 A Dynamic Past; 1.5 The Ambivalence of Urban Dynamics; 1.5.1 Infrastructure; 1.5.2 Regulation; 1.5.2.1 State Regulation; 1.5.2.2 Caste-Based Regulation; 1.5.3 Livelihoods; 1.5.3.1 The Workforce; 1.5.3.2 The Family Firm
Description / Table of Contents:
1.5.4 The Casualties of Arni's Dynamism1.6 Urban--Rural Dynamics; 1.6.1 Agrarian Dynamism, Rural--Urban Growth Linkages and Economic Distress; 1.7 Onwards; Acknowledgments; Appendix: The Case for the Case Study; References; 2 Local-Global Integration, Diversification and Informality: Long-Term Change in Arni During the Late Twentieth Century; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 Method; 2.2 Analyzing Capitalist Development in Arni; 2.3 Trends in Arni's Long-Term Development; 2.3.1 A Growing Economy; 2.3.2 A Diversified Economy; 2.3.3 An Informal Economy; 2.3.4 Characteristics of Arni's Informal Firms
Description / Table of Contents:
2.4 Arni's `External Relations'2.5 On Arni's Capitalism in the Twentieth Century; Acknowledgments; Appendix; References; 3 Arni's Workforce: Segmentation Processes, Labour Market Mobility, Self-employment and Caste; 3.1 Introduction: Labour Market Segmentation; 3.2 Labour Market Mobility and Segmentation: Theories and Evidence; 3.2.1 A Short Introduction to Theories of Labour Market Segmentation; 3.2.2 Self-employed Workers in Labour Market Theory; 3.2.3 Data Sources and Methodology; 3.3 The Making of the Self-employed Workforce in Arni: Origins and Composition
Description / Table of Contents:
3.3.1 The Origin of Self-employed Workers in Terms of the Employment Status of the Household Head3.3.2 The Origins of Self-employed Workers in Terms of Ancestral/Caste Occupation; 3.4 The Labour Market Mobility of Self-employed Workers; 3.4.1 The Direction of Mobility; 3.4.2 Occupational Mobility---Between Industry Groups; 3.4.3 Inter-industry Mobility; 3.4.3.1 Caste, Industry and Mobility; 3.5 Segmentation Processes Among Self-employed Workers---Field-Evidence from Arni; 3.5.1 Caste and Self-employment in Trading; 3.5.1.1 Caste-Based Participation in Trade
Description / Table of Contents:
3.5.1.2 The Importance of Spatial Location and Premises3.5.1.3 Adi Dravidars and Vanniyars; 3.5.1.4 Agamudayars and Labbai Muslims; 3.5.1.5 Pagudi and Advances; 3.5.1.6 The Purchase and Sale of Goods on Credit; 3.5.2 Membership of Backward Classes and the Differentiation of Self-employment; 3.6 Conclusion; References; 4 `Local Capitalism' and the Development of the Rice Economy, 1973--2010; 4.1 Introduction---Questions and Theory Through Which to Address Them; 4.2 Local Agro-Capitalism in the Twentieth Century---Production and Exchange; 4.2.1 The Green Revolution
Description / Table of Contents:
4.2.2 The Final Three Decades of the Twentieth Century
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