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This book examines the economic gains and social costs of agrarian transformation in India. The author looks at three phases of agrarian transformation: colonial, post- colonial, and neoliberal. This work combines macro and micro economic data, economic and noneconomic phenomena, and quantitative and qualitative aspects while exploring the context of historical and contemporary changes with special reference to Maharashtra in western India. It discusses regional disparities in agricultural development, issues of modernisation and social inequality, land owning among scheduled castes and tribes, women in agriculture, pattern of labour migration and farmer's suicides, and documents the experiences and conditions of the rural poor and socially weaker sections to provide a comprehensive understanding of the significant changes in agrarian rural economy of western India. It also discusses contemporary development policy and practices and their consequences. Lucid and topical, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of agrarian studies, rural sociology, social history, agricultural economics, development studies, political economy, political studies, and public policy, as well as planning and policy experts.

This book evaluates the relevance of classical debates on agrarian transition and extends the horizon of contemporary debates in the Indian context, linking national trends with regional experiences. It identifies new dynamics in agrarian political economy and presents a comprehensive account of diverse aspects of capitalist transition both at theoretical and empirical levels. The essays discuss several neglected domains in agricultural economics such as discursive dimensions of agrarian relations and limitations of stereotypical binaries between capital and non-capital, rural and urban sectors, agriculture and industry, and accumulation and subsistence. With contributions from major scholars in the field, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of agriculture, economics, political economy, sociology, rural development and development studies.

Contributed articles on the post 1991 economic policies reforms; collated by the Women's College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

Der Verfasser gibt zunächst einen Überblick über die sozioökonomische und politische Struktur der kambodschanischen Gesellschaft. Er behandelt im folgenden die strategische Bedeutung Südostasiens, die Interessen der Supermächte in dieser Region sowie den Einfluß dieser Interessen auf die kambodschanische Politik. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden die Konsequenzen der Pol-Pot-Diktatur für Kambodscha dargestellt. Es schließt sich eine Untersuchung der Strategien Chinas und Vietnams in bezug auf Kambodscha und ihre Einflußnahme auf politische Gruppierungen in Kambodscha an. Abschließend wird die Rolle der Bewegung der Blockfreien im Kambodscha-Konflikt untersucht. (BIOst-Wpt)