02768nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr10481551 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 090516s2009 ii b sb 000 0 eng d 2010319289 8190757024 9788190757027 9781843318231 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)741613224 a-ii--- HN690.Z9 C6276 2009eb The changing identity of rural India [electronic resource] : a socio-historic analysis / edited by Elisabetta Basile, Ishita Mukhopadhyay. New Delhi ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009. xi, 311 p. : 3 maps. Anthem South Asian studies Includes bibliographical references. Introduction: Capital and labour transformations in shaping rural development in India / Elisabetta Basile and Ishita Mukhopadhyay -- Identifying livelihoods in rural India / Ishita Mukhopadhyay -- The institutional embeddedness of Indian rural capitalism / Elisabetta Basile -- Social capital and poverty reduction strategies : the case of rural India / Claudio Cecchi, Luca Molinas, and Fabio Sabatini -- An overview of Indian microfinance / Shirsendu Mukherjee and Sukanta Bhattacharya -- Income-based estimates vs. consumption-based estimates of poverty : evidence from rural Tamil Nadu after liberalization / Marco Cavalcante -- Occupational diversification of the rural workers : some results from field surveys in West Bengal / Sankar K. Bhaumik -- Literacy and externalities in human development / Rabindranath Mukhopadhyay and Sudeshna Ghosh -- The social context of politics in rural West Bengal (1947-92) / Mario Prayer -- Agrarian expansion under colonial rule and its impact on a tribal economy / Sanjukta Das Gupta -- Acting on institutions to preserve agricultural biodiversity : the Syngenta controversy in Chhattisgarh / Christine Lutringer -- The conflicting opinions of the colonial bureaucracy over the Paraiyans right over 'waste' in late 19th century Tamil Nadu / Raj Sekhar Basu -- Appendix 1. Socio-economic indicators of rural India. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Rural development India. India Rural conditions. Electronic books. local Basile, Elisabetta. Mukhopadhyay, Ishita. ebrary, Inc. Anthem South Asian studies. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10481551 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 118868 118868