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Author:   Barbara Harriss-White
Publisher:   Springer, India, Private Ltd
Imprint:   Springer, India, Private Ltd
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Weight:   5.772kg
ISBN:  

9788132229872

ISBN 10:   8132229878
Pages:   289
Publication Date:   23 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Economic Dynamism of Middle India.- Chapter 2. Local-Global Integration, Diversification and Informality: Long Term Change in Arni During the Late Twentieth Century.- Chapter 3. Arni’s Workforce:   Segmentation Processes, Labour Market Mobility,  Self-Employment and Caste.- Chapter 4. Local Capitalism and the Development of the Rice Economy: 1973-2010.- Chapter 5. A Future Not so Golden: Liberalisation, Mechanisation and Conflict in Arni’s Gold Ornaments Cluster.- Chapter 6. The Impact of Caste on Production Relations in Arni: A Gramscian Analysis.- Chapter 7. Technological Change and Innovation in Middle India: The Case of Arni’s Silk Cluster.- Chapter 8. The Making and Unmaking of Handloom Silk Weaving in the Arni Region.- Chapter 9. Institutional Change in Informal Credit: Through the Urban-Rural Lens.- Chapter 10. Feeling Rich on an Empty Stomach: Agrarian Crisis and Rural Consumption Choices.- Chapter 11. Epilogue– The future for Small Towns: The Case of Arni – or Ambur or Ranipet or Tiruppur or…?.- Chapter 12. The Arni Studies Bibliography, 1976-2014.

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It explores the nature of specfic growth processes and how economic development can be understood and not just estimated in terms of metric outcomes. ... There is no other comparable study that has this longitudinal depth and focus and it is a highly original contribution to urban studies. (Adam Pain, Journal of South Asian Development, Vol. 11 (1), 2016)

“It explores the nature of specfic growth processes and how economic development can be understood and not just estimated in terms of metric outcomes. … There is no other comparable study that has this longitudinal depth and focus and it is a highly original contribution to urban studies.” (Adam Pain, Journal of South Asian Development, Vol. 11 (1), 2016)

Author Information

Barbara Harriss-White is Emeritus Fellow and Professor of Development Studies at Oxford University, Senior Research Fellow in Area Studies, Oxford University, coordinator of the South Asia Research Cluster at Wolfson College, Oxford and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Alone or with others she has written and edited 35 books and over 225  book chapters and journal papers, almost all on India. Her research interests span India’s small towns, agriculture and its energetics, the informal capitalist economy and its regulative politics and policy, and many aspects of deprivation.

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