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"This book describes and analyzes the transformation of Indian economy taking into account historical changes and present dynamics of the rural-urban nexus. India has recently experienced a period as a high-performing economy, with the great improvement of indices of human development including literacy rates, life expectancy, child mortality rates and others. In contrast to this bright outlook, features such as the retarded growth of women's average height, the noticeable gap between male and female population, the overwhelming proportion of informal employment in the manufacturing sector, or increasing pollution overshadow India's future, in some cases posing a threat to lifestyle and environment. Examining the rural-urban nexus where the new transformative dynamics of Indian socio-economy is most conspicuous, the contributors to this book shed light on the actual changes taking place at the bottom of Indian society through regional comparisons and spatial differentiation. It offers unique perspectives on the topic produced mostly by Japanese scholars, including analysis of original data, that have hitherto been unavailable and inaccessible to an international audience. The first book published on the rural-urban nexus in India, this book will be of interest to researchers studying South Asian History, Economics, Politics, Geography, Sociology and Anthropology, Development Studies and Economic History"--

"This book investigates the roots of rapid economic growth of India in recent decades, by exploring historical processes from the late colonial period. Based upon decades-long archival and field research, this book deals with the period from the late nineteenth century to 2013 and offers an integral viewpoint of the economic history of India. While critiquing the conventional understanding that links recent economic growth only with the development of high-tech, export-oriented service sectors under the liberalized economy, the book suggests deeper and wider roots of development that had a cumulative effect in three stages. Firstly, the agrarian development and rural socio-economic changes from the end of the nineteenth century. Secondly, the state-led import-substitution industrialization since 1950 that established the industrial foundations for future economic growth. Thirdly, the economic reforms since 1991 that helped technology-intensive industries find new markets with improved quality of production. For the first time available in English, this book by the late Professor Haruka Yanagisawa, who was a leading figure in the South Asia studies collective in Japan, is an important contribution to the academic tradition of economic history of India It will be of interest to researchers in the field of social and economic history, sociology, anthropology and economies of South Asia"--

"This book explores and interrogates the food-water-energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India's economic development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in states across India, including the consequences of electricity tariff reforms and related policies on irrigated agriculture. Part 1 focuses on the historical development of agriculture and social change in India, with special reference to the mode of responses and adaptations in social systems against the inherent low and erratic rainfall and resulting water stress in India during the pre-colonial period. Additionally, it investigates how colonial development destroyed social systems and discusses future development prospects. Part 2 discusses contemporary issues of agriculture and social change in India. A comprehensive examination of various important issues related to South Asian agricultural development in the past and in the present, this book will be a valuable reference for researchers of Asian development, sustainable development, environmental policy, South Asian Studies and Development Studies."

This book explores and interrogates the food–water–energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India's economic development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in states across India, including the consequences of electricity tariff reforms and related policies on irrigated agriculture. Part 1 focuses on the historical development of agriculture and social change in India, with special reference to the mode of responses and adaptations in social systems against the inherent low and erratic rainfall and resulting water stress in India during the pre-colonial period. Additionally, it investigates how colonial development destroyed social systems and discusses future development prospects. Part 2 discusses contemporary issues of agriculture and social change in India. A comprehensive examination of various important issues related to South Asian agricultural development in the past and in the present, this book will be a valuable reference for researchers of Asian development, sustainable development, environmental policy, South Asian Studies and Development Studies.

Preliminary Material /Tsukasa Mizushima , George Bryan Souza and Dennis O. Flynn -- Introduction /Tsukasa Mizushima , George Bryan Souza and Dennis O. Flynn -- Hinterlands, Commodity Chains, and Circuits in Early Modern Asian History: Sugar in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan /George Bryan Souza -- Hydraulic Metaphor: A Model of Global and Local Connectivity /Dennis O. Flynn and Marie A. Lee -- The Dynamics of Port-Hinterland Relationships in Eighteenth-Century Gujarat /Ghulam A. Nadri -- Ports, Hinterlands and Merchant Networks: Armenians in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century /Bhaswati Bhattacharya -- Linking Hinterlands with Colonial Port Towns: Madras and Pondicherry in Early Modern India /Tsukasa Mizushima -- Maritime Asian Trade and Colonization of Penang, c. 1786–1830 /Tomotaka Kawamura -- Toward a Transborder, Market-Oriented Society: Changes in the Hinterlands of Banten, c. 1760–1790 /Atsushi Ota -- Hinterlands and Port Cities in Southeast Asia's Economic Development in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Tin Production and its Export Trade /Ryuto Shimada -- Trade and Crisis: China's Hinterlands in the Eighteenth Century /Ei Murakami -- Bibliography /Tsukasa Mizushima , George Bryan Souza and Dennis O. Flynn -- Index /Tsukasa Mizushima , George Bryan Souza and Dennis O. Flynn.