The Changing Village in India

Himanshu is an Associate Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Praveen Jha is a Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Gerry Rodgers is a visiting Professor, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi

Preface ; 1. Introduction (Himanshu, Praveen Jha, and Gerry Rodgers) ; 2. The Story of the aSlater Villagea Studies of Agrarian Change in Tamil Nadu, and Methodological Reflections upon Them (John Harriss) ; 3. Plain Tales from the Plains: A Personal Account of Researching in Rural Bijnor over Three Decades (Patricia Jeffery) ; 4. Strengths and Weaknesses of Long Term Village Studies: Reflections on Methods and Research Design from Studies in Bangladesh (Shapan Adnan) ; 5. How Lives Change: Six Decades in a North Indian Village (Himanshu and Nicholas Stern) ; 6. Four decades of village studies and surveys in Bihar (Gerry Rodgers, Sunil K Mishra, and Alakh N. Sharma) ; 7. A Forgotten aRevolutiona: Revisiting Rural Life and Agrarian Change in Haryana (Surinder S. Jodhka) ; 8. Assessing Change: Land, Labour, and Employment in an Eastern UP Village, 1994a2012 (Ravi Srivastava) ; 9. Thirty Years On: Work and Well-Being in Rural Bihar (Praveen Jha and Avanindra Nath Thakur) ; 10. Rural Tamil Nadu in the Liberalization Era: What Do We Learn from Village Studies? (John Harriss and J. Jeyaranjan) ; 11. Non-farm Diversification, Inequality, and Mobility in Palanpur (Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw, Rinku Murgai, and Nicholas Stern) ; 12. Rural Gounders on the Move in Western Tamil Nadu: 1981-2 to 2008-9 (Judith Heyer) ; 13. Changes in Rural Labour Markets in Bihar: 1981-2011 (Janine Rodgers) ; 14. Migration from Rural Bihar: Insights from a Longitudinal Study (1981a2011) (Amrita Datta) ; 15. Public Services, Social Relations, Politics, and Gender: Tales from a North Indian Village (Dipa Sinha, Dinesh Tiwari, Ruchira Bhattacharya, and R. Kattumuri) ; 16. Caste and Land Distribution: Results from a Village Resurvey in Maharashtra, 1964a2007 (R. Ramakumar) ; 17. Ideas and Substance in RuralaUrban Economic Relations: The Contribution of a Long-term Urban Study in South India (Barbara Harriss-White) ; About the Editors & Contributors