LEADER 05303nam 22006255 450 001 9910253316803321 005 20200629212142.0 010 $a81-322-2431-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-81-322-2431-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000454303 035 $a(EBL)3567894 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001534773 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11945527 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001534773 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11496208 035 $a(PQKB)11159900 035 $a(DE-He213)978-81-322-2431-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3567894 035 $a(PPN)187687994 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000454303 100 $a20150728d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMiddle India and Urban-Rural Development$b[electronic resource] $eFour Decades of Change /$fedited by Barbara Harriss-White 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aNew Delhi :$cSpringer India :$cImprint: Springer,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (330 p.) 225 1 $aExploring Urban Change in South Asia,$x2367-0045 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a81-322-2430-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aMiddle India and Rural-Urban Development explores the socio-economic conditions of an ?India? that falls between the cracks of macro-economic analysis, sectoral research and micro-level ethnography. Its focus, the ?middle India? of small towns, is relatively unknown in scholarly terms for good reason: it requires sustained and difficult field research. But it is where most Indians either live or constantly visit in order to buy and sell, arrange marriages and plot politics. Anyone who wants to understand India therefore needs to understand non-metropolitan, provincial, small-town India and its economic life. This book meets this need. From 1973 to the present, Barbara Harriss-White has watched India?s development through the lens of an ordinary  town in northern Tamil Nadu, Arni. This book provides a pluralist, multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspective on Arni and its rural hinterland. It grounds general economic processes  in the social specificities of a given place and region. In the process, continuity is juxtaposed with abrupt change. A strong feature of the book is its analysis of how government policies that fail to take into account the realities of small town life in India have unintended and often perverse consequences. In this unique book, Harriss-White brings together ten essays written by herself and her research team on Arni and its surrounding rural areas. They track the changing nature of local business and the workforce; their urban-rural relations, their regulation through civil society organizations and social practices, their relations to the state and to India?s accelerating and dynamic growth. That most people live outside the metropolises holds for many other developing countries and makes this book, and the ideas and methods that frame it, highly relevant to a global development audience. 410 0$aExploring Urban Change in South Asia,$x2367-0045 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aDevelopment economics 606 $aUrban geography 606 $aHuman Geography$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X26000 606 $aDevelopment Economics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W42000 606 $aUrban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J15010 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 0$aDevelopment economics. 615 0$aUrban geography. 615 14$aHuman Geography. 615 24$aDevelopment Economics. 615 24$aUrban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). 676 $a300 702 $aHarriss-White$b Barbara$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910253316803321 996 $aMiddle India and Urban-Rural Development$92494481 997 $aUNINA