Agrarian Evolution in a Multiform Structure Society

Experience of Independent India
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-88853-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

India in the 1950s and 1960s, with its diversity of economic structures and different levels of regional development, offers a unique opportunity to explore a wide range of agrarian evolution within a multiform society. Basing his study on an extensive survey of the existing literature as well as on fieldwork conducted in India, the author analyses in his book Agrarian Evolution in a Multiform Structure Society (first published in English in 1981) the roots of the Indian society and suggests future directions. He argues that India, like many Asian countries, exhibits tendencies peculiar to an economy evolving on the basis of dependent capitalist development.

The author goes on to show how the state, in seeking to ease the teething problems of development, has assumed a decisive role, expressed in terms of the nationalisation of certain sectors of private exploitative property, and in the supersession of private interests by public ones. The historically inevitable progress of Indian society is therefore a paradoxical one: because its economy exists on the periphery of its system-moulding structure—world capitalism—it has special problems reconciled only by state intervention, this in turn makes the development of a capitalist society impossible. The result is a unique study of a society which has assumed increasing importance in world affairs.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rastyannikov, V. G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part 1. Subsistence economy and commodity economy relations in the agrarian set-up 1. The Market and Productive Consumption in Agriculture 2. The Market and Personal Consumption in Agriculture 3. The Market and the Producer Part 2: Agrarian Capitalism  4. The Formation of Intermediary Socio-economic Structures and the Emergence of Capitalist Production Relations  5. Capitalism of a Conservative Type 6. State Co-operative Property and the Multiform Structure Rural Economy 7. The Conditions for the Evolution of Small-commodity Production into Capitalist Production 8. Agrarian Capitalism and Urban Capitalism  Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

V. G. Rastyannikov was a research scholar at the USSR Academy of Sciences.