The landlord and his emaciated labourer are symbolic of Indian
agriculture. However, this relationship has now changed as large
landowners have fallen from their superior position. This volume
explores how this emblematic pair is becoming a thing of the past.
Structural Transformation and Agrarian Change in India investigates
whether family labour farms are gaining prominence as a consequence
of the structural transformation of the economy. The authors work
alongside Weberian methodology of ideal types and develop different
types of family farms; among them family labour farms that rely
mainly on family workers, contrasted with capitalist farms that
depend on hired labour. Agriculture is shrinking as a part of the
total GDP at the same time as agricultural labour is shrinking as
part of the total labour force. The changing agrarian structure is
explored with the use of unique long-term survey data and
statistical models. Results show that India is approaching farm
structures that are typical of East and South East Asia, with
pluriactive smallholders as the norm. This book successfully
criticizes popular narratives about Indian agricultural development
as well as simplistic evolutionist, Marxist or neoclassical
prognoses. It is of great importance to those who study development
economics, development studies and South Asian economics.
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