Rural south Asia : Linkages, change and development
Rural south Asia : Linkages, change and development
- New Delhi Segment Book 1986
- 250 p.
This volume results from an international symposium which I organized in December 1980 under the auspices. of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Further papers. from the same symposium and an earlier meeting in June. are being published separately under the title Rural India: Land, Power and Society under British Rule (Collected Papers on South Asia No.6).
The present book comprises those contributions. which bore particularly on questions of change in rela tion to economic development. The intention is to con centrate on linkages between localities and the outside world, and in general between what may be defined as intrinsic to a given society and what may be called external. The essays are illustrative of the subject; this volume does not pretend to be a survey and has no pretensions to being regionally or thematically compre hensive. Four papers, those by Eric Meyer, Nurit Bird, Gyan Pandey and Dick Kooiman, examine the response of South Asian societies specifically to the introduction of 'modern' features of production: plantations, foreign. imports or capitalist industry. Four more papers treat aspects of external linkages in particular relation to economic development: that by Walter Neale on the role of the money-lender as 'culture broker', that by H.G. Hanumappa and John Adam on the physical communication between villagers and nearby towns, and those of Ghan shyam Shah and Paul Brass on recent development efforts. and different responses to technological advances.
Rural development-South Asia
307.72095 Rur
This volume results from an international symposium which I organized in December 1980 under the auspices. of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Further papers. from the same symposium and an earlier meeting in June. are being published separately under the title Rural India: Land, Power and Society under British Rule (Collected Papers on South Asia No.6).
The present book comprises those contributions. which bore particularly on questions of change in rela tion to economic development. The intention is to con centrate on linkages between localities and the outside world, and in general between what may be defined as intrinsic to a given society and what may be called external. The essays are illustrative of the subject; this volume does not pretend to be a survey and has no pretensions to being regionally or thematically compre hensive. Four papers, those by Eric Meyer, Nurit Bird, Gyan Pandey and Dick Kooiman, examine the response of South Asian societies specifically to the introduction of 'modern' features of production: plantations, foreign. imports or capitalist industry. Four more papers treat aspects of external linkages in particular relation to economic development: that by Walter Neale on the role of the money-lender as 'culture broker', that by H.G. Hanumappa and John Adam on the physical communication between villagers and nearby towns, and those of Ghan shyam Shah and Paul Brass on recent development efforts. and different responses to technological advances.
Rural development-South Asia
307.72095 Rur