Search Results - (agaria OR agrarian)

Perspectives in social sciences /

Table of Contents: “…Three studies on the agrarian structure in Bengal, 1850-1947.--3. Economy, society, and polity…”

Collected works Vol.40 by "Lenin, V.I"

The Cambridge economic history of Europe by Postan, M.M., ed

Socialism in India/ by Nanda, B. R. (Bal Ram), 1917-2010

Liberalism in empire : an alternative history / by Sartori, Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- The great rent case -- Custom and the crisis of Victorian liberalism -- An agrarian civil society? -- Peasant property and Muslim freedom.…”

Crooked stalks : cultivating virtue in South India / by Pandian, Anand

Table of Contents: “…: on the proper violence of agrarian citizenship -- "The life of the thief leaves the belly always boiling" : on the nature and restraint of the criminal animal -- "Millets sown yield millets, evil sown yields evil" : on the moral returns of agrarian toil -- "Let the water for the paddy also irrigate the grass" : on the sympathies of an aqueous self.…”

Games in economic development by Wydick, Bruce

Table of Contents: “…Economic development, interdependence, and incentives -- Games -- Development traps and coordination games -- Rural poverty, development and the environment -- Risk, solidarity networks, and reciprocity -- Understanding agrarian institutions -- Savings, c…”

Dalit households in village economies by Ramachandran, V. K., eds

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Struggle for land, labour and rights: some historical experiences -- Economic issues in contemporary village India -- Dalit households in village economies: essays from the project on agrarian relations in India…”

Peasant movements in post-colonial India Dynamics of mobilization and identity by Singha Roy, Debal K.

Table of Contents: “…Towards conceptualization: peasants and peasant movements -- Radical peasant movements: an interface with history -- Peasantry in the emerging agrarian social structure -- Contemporary peasant movements: an account from within -- Trends of mobilization: f…”

Making the modern slum : the power of capital in colonial Bombay / by Chhabria, Sheetal

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Genealogies of the urban modern -- Calculative rationales -- Containing agrarian crises -- Rendering housing technical -- Conduits of control -- A self-governing city -- Conclusion: Afterlives of city-making -- Epilogue: Movements and countermovements.…”

A Thousand tiny cuts : mobility and security across the Bangladesh-India borderlands / by Ghosh, Sahana, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On and off rangpur road -- Walking through the borderlandscape -- Relative intimacies -- Distinctions : Agrarian commodity chains and the national Economy -- "No risk, no profit" : border violence, masculine becoming, and worth -- Dwelling through mobility and unsettlement -- Epilogue.…”

From green to evergreen revolution Indian agriculture : performance and emerging challenges by Swaminathan, Monkombu Sambasivan

Table of Contents: “…Sustainable food security -- pt. 4. Agrarian crisis -- pt. 5. WTO and Indian farmers -- pt. 6. …”

A local history of global capital : jute and peasant life in the Bengal Delta / by Ali, Tariq Omar

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Cultivating jute: peasant choice, labor, and hunger -- Consumption and self-fashioning: the politics of peasant consumerism -- The spaces of jute: metropolis, hinterland, and Mofussil -- Immiseration -- Agrarian forms of Islam: the politics of peasant immiseration -- Peasant populism: electoral politics and the "rural Muhammadan" -- Pakistan and partition: peasant utopia and disillusion -- Conclusion.…”

Child growth and nutrition in developing countries priorities for action by Pinstrup-Andersen, Per eds

Challenging the injustice of poverty : agendas for inclusive development in South Asia / by Sobhan, Rehman

Table of Contents: “…Poverty as structural injustice -- Prevailing poverty alleviation strategies: a review -- Promoting agrarian reform -- Enhancing the market power of the excluded: sharing in value addition -- Democratising educational opportunities -- Budgetary policies for poverty eradication -- Financial policies for poverty eradication -- Broadening ownership of assets through collective action -- Institutions for promoting collective action by the excluded -- The political economy of structural change.…”

Nandanar's children : the Paraiyans' tryst with destiny, Tamil Nadu 1850-1956 / by Basu, Raj Sekhar

Table of Contents: “…Elusive freedom: the Paraiyans and agrarian servitude in nineteenth century Tamil Nadu -- The missionary involvement with the "Pariah" issue in South India -- Search for fresh pastures: overseas and internal migration patterns of the Tamil Paraiyans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- The Paraiyans: from socio-economic upliftment to entry into politics -- The making of 'Adi Dravida' politics in Tamil Nadu -- Political groupism and fractured 'Adi Dravida' politics in Tamil Nadu.…”

Social origins of dictatorship and democracy: lord and peasant in the making of the modern world/ by Moore, Barrington, 1913-2005

Social origins of dictatorship and democracy: lord and peasant in the making of the modern world/ by Moore, Barrington, 1913-2005

A history of Bangladesh / by Schendel, Willem van

Table of Contents: “…A land of water and silt -- Jungle, fields, cities and states -- A region of multiple frontiers -- The delta as a crossroads -- From the Mughal empire to the British empire -- The British impact -- A closing agrarian frontier -- Colonial conflicts -- Towards partition -- Partition -- The Pakistan experiment -- Pakistan falls apart -- East Pakistani livelihoods -- The roots of aid dependence -- A new elite and cultural renewal -- Armed conflict -- A state is born -- Imagining a new society -- Creating a political system -- Transnational linkages -- Bursting at the seams -- A national culture? …”

The ryotwari system in Madras, 1792-1827/ by Mukherjee, Nilmani