The Rural-Urban Nexus in India's Economic Transformation

Auteur

Tsukasa Mizushima is a historian in the fields of Indian economic history and global history and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Japan. His recent publications include Sustainable Development in India: Groundwater Irrigation, Energy Use, and Food Production, co-edited with Koichi Fujita (Routledge, 2020) and Hinterlands and Commodities: Place, Space, Time and the Political Economic Development of Asia over the Long Eighteenth Century, co-edited with George Bryan Souza and Dennis O. Flynn (2014).

Texte du rabat

This book describes and analyzes the transformation of Indian economy taking into account historical changes and present dynamics of the rural-urban nexus. It will be of interest to researchers studying South Asian History, Economics, Politics, Geography, Sociology and Anthropology, Development Studies and Economic History.

Contenu

Introduction; Chapter 1. A Long-term Trend of Rural India; Chapter 2. Crop Specialization and Long-Term Productivity Growth in Indian Agriculture: A District-Level Analysis; Chapter 3. Thirty Years of Change: Tamil Villages Re-surveyed; Chapter 4. Recent Changes in Employment Structure in India; Chapter 5. Food Consumption of Low-income Households in India in the Era of Economic Growth; Chapter 6. Dairy Industry Modernization and the Changing Rural Economy of India; Chapter 7. Disparities in Convergence: RuralUrban Child Welfare in India; Chapter 8. Environmental Problems of Food Production and Consumption: A District-level Analysis of Nitrogen Flow; Chapter 9. Power Sector Reform and Blackouts in India; Chapter 10. India in the World Economy: Inferences from Empirics of Economic Growth