A Review of Research On Rural Society and Agrarian Change in South Asia

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Bhaduri, A. , 1983. The Economic Structure of Backword Agriculture . London: Academic Press.

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Bhaduri, A. et al., 1986. 'Persistence and polarisation. A study in the dynamics of agrarian contradiction', Journal of Peasant Studies, 13, 82-9.

Bhalla, S. , 1987. 'Trends in employment in Indian agriculture, land and asset distribution', Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics , 42, 4, 537-60.

Bharadwaj, K. , 1985. 'A view on commercialisation in Indian agriculture and the development of capitalism', Journal of Peasant Studies , 12, 4.

Booth, D. , 1985. 'Marxism and development sociology: Interpreting the impasse ', World Development,13, 761-88.

Bouton, M. , 1985. Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Institutional Constraints to Technological Change. Oxford: University Press.

Breman, J. , 1985. Of Peasants, Migrants and Paupers: Rural Labour Circulation and Capitalist Production in West India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

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Byres, T.J. , 1981. 'The new technology, class formation, and class action in the Indian countryside', Journal of Peasant Studies , 8, 4, 405-54.

Cain, M. , 1981. 'Risk and insurance: Perspectives on fertility and agrarian change in India and Bangladesh', Population and Development Review, 7, 3, 435-74.

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Chambers, R. , 1988. 'Poverty in India: Concepts, research and reality', Discussion Paper No. 241, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

Djurfeld, G. and Lindberg, S. , 1975. Behind Poverty: The Social Formation in a Tamil Village . London: Curzon Press.

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Gaiha, R. , 1989. 'Poverty, agricultural production and prices in rural India - a reformulation', Cambridge Journal of Economics , 13,333-52.

Ghosh, A. , 1989. 'Rural poverty and relative prices in India', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 13, 307-31.

Guha, R. , 1989. The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Guhan, S. , 1980. 'Rural poverty: Policy and play acting', Economic and Political Weekly, 15, 47, 1975-1982.

Hardiman, D. , 1981. Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat. Delhi : Oxford University Press.

Harriss, B. and Harriss, J. , 1984. "'Generative" and "parasitic" urbanism? Some observations from the recent history of a South Indian market town', Joumal of Development Studies, 20, 82-101.

Harriss, J. , 1980. 'Contemporary Marxist analysis of the agrarian question in India', Madras Institute of Development Studies, Discussion Paper.

— 1982. Capitalism and Peasant Farming: Agrarian Structure and Ideology in Northern Tamil Nadu. Bombay: Oxford University Press.

— 1982b. 'Character of an urban economy, "small-scale" production and labour markets in Combatore', Economic and Political Weekly , 17, 23 and 24, 945-54 and 993-1002.

— 1983. 'Making out on limited resources, what happened to semi-feudalism in West Bengal', CRESSIDA Transactions, 2, 16-76.

— 1984. 'Social organisation and irrigation: Ideology, planning and practice in Sri Lanka's settlement schemes', in Bayliss-Smith, T. and Wanmali, S. (eds), Understanding Green Revolutions: Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia. Cambridge: University Press.

— 1985. 'What happened to the green revolution in South India? Economic trends, household mobility and the politics of an "awkward class "', University of East Anglia, School of Development Studies , Discussion Paper No. 175.

— 1987. 'Capitalism and peasant production: The green revolution in India', in Shanin, T. (ed.), Peasants and Peasant Societies (2nd edition). Oxford: Blackwell.

— 1989. 'Knowing about rural economic change: Problems arising from a comparison of the results of "macro" and "micro" research in Tamil Nadu', in Bardhan, P. K. (ed.), Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Hartmann, B. and Boyce, J. , 1983. A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village London: Zed Books.

Herring, R. , 1984. 'Economic consequences of local power configurations in rural South Asia', in Desai, M. et al. (eds), Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity in South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Hill, P. , 1982. Drygrain Farming Families. Cambridge : University Press.

Islam, R. , 1986. 'Non-farm employment in rural Asia: Issues and evidence ', in Shand, R. T. (ed.), Off-farm Employment in the Development of Rural Asia. Canberra: ANU.

Jodha, N.S. , 1985. 'Population growth and the decline of common property resources in Rajasthan, India', Population and Development Review, II, 2, 247-64.

— 1986. 'CPRs and the rural poor in dry regions of India ', Economic and Political Weekly, 21, 27, 1169-1181.

— 1989. 'Social science research on rural change: Some gaps', in Bardhan, P. K. (ed.), Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

— 1990. 'Rural CPR: Contributions and crisis', Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Agriculture, June, 25, 26, A65-A78.

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Lieten, G.K. , 1990. 'Depeasantisation discontinued: Land reforms in West Bengal' , Economic and Political Weekly, 25, 40, 2265-2271.

Lindberg, S. , 1990. 'Civil society against the state: Farmers' agitations and new social movements in India', paper to the Seventh Annual Conference of the Nordic Association for Southeast Asian Studies, and the XII World Congress of Sociology, Madrid.

Lipton, M. with Longhurst, R. , 1989. New Seeds and Poor People. London: Unwin Hyman.

Mellor, J. , 1976. The New Economics of Growth. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

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Minhas, B.S. and Mazumdar, G. , 1987. 'Unemployment and casual labour in India: An analysis of recent NSS data', Indian Journal of Industrial Relations , 22, 3,237-53.

Moore, M. , 1985. The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka. Cambridge: University Press.

Nadkarni, M.V. , 1987. Farmers'Movements in India. New Delhi : Allied Publishers.

Omvedt, G. , 1983. 'Capitalist agriculture and rural classes in India ', Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 15, 3, 30-54.

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Pacey, A. and Payne, P. , 1985. Nutrition and Agricultural Development. London: Unwin Hyman.

Patnaik, V. , 1976. 'Class differentiation within the peasantry: An approach to the analysis of Indian agriculture', Economic and Political Weekly, 11, 39, Review of Agriculture, A82-A101.

— 1986. 'The agrarian question and the development of capitalism in India', Economic and Political Weekly, 21, 18, 781-93.

— 1987. Peasant Class Differentiation: A Study in Method with Reference to Haryana. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

— 1988. 'Some aspects of development in the agrarian sector in independent India', Social Scientist No. 177, 16, 2, 17-40.

— 1989. 'India's agricultural development in the light of historical experience', paper for the Conference on the State and Development Planning in India, Centre of South Asian Studies, SOAS

Perera, J. , 1985. New Dimensions of Social Stratification in Rural Sri Lanka . Colombo: Lake House.

Popkin, S. , 1979. The Rational Peasant. New Haven : Yale University Press.

Pouchepadass, J. , 1980. 'Peasant classes in twentieth century agrarian movements in India', in Hobsbawm, E. et al. (eds), Peasants in History. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Rahman, A. , 1986. Peasants and Classes: A Study in Differentiation in Bangladesh . London: Zed Books .

Robinson, M. , 1988. Local Politics: The Law of the Fishes. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Rudolph, L.I. and Rudolph, S.H. , 1987. In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State. Chicago: University Press .

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Rudra, A. , 1984. 'Local power and farm level decision-making', in Desai, M. et al. (eds), Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity in South Asia. Delhi : Oxford University Press.

Sanyal, S.K. , 1988. 'Trends in landholding and poverty in rural India' , in Srinivasan, T. N. and Bardhan, P. K. (eds), Rural Poverty in South Asia. New York: Columbia University Press.

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Shiva, V. , 1989. The Violence of the Green Revolution: Ecological Degradation and Political Conflict in Punjab. Research Foundation for Science & Technology, Dehrai Dun .

Singh, I. , 1988. Small Farmers in South Asia; Tenancy in South Asia; Land and Labour in South Asia. Discussion Papers 31-33, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.

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