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This book explores and interrogates the food-water-energy nexus,
arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India's economic
development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in
states across India, including the consequences of electricity
tariff reforms and related policies on irrigated agriculture. A
comprehensive examination of various important issues related to
South Asian agricultural development in the past and in the
present, this book will be a valuable reference for researchers of
Asian development, sustainable development, environmental policy,
South Asian Studies and Development Studies.
This book investigates the roots of rapid economic growth of India
in recent decades, by exploring historical processes from the late
colonial period. Based upon decades-long archival and field
research, this book deals with the period from the late nineteenth
century to 2013 and offers an integral viewpoint of the economic
history of India. While critiquing the conventional understanding
that links recent economic growth only with the development of
high-tech, export-oriented service sectors under the liberalised
economy, the book suggests deeper and wider roots of development
that had a cumulative effect in three stages. First, the agrarian
development and rural socio-economic changes from the end of the
nineteenth century. Second, the state-led import-substitution
industrialisation since 1950 that established the industrial
foundations for future economic growth. Third, the economic reforms
since 1991 that helped technology-intensive industries find new
markets with improved quality of production. For the first time
available in English, this book by the late Professor Haruka
Yanagisawa, who was a leading figure in the South Asia studies
collective in Japan, is an important contribution to the academic
tradition of economic history of India. It will be of interest to
researchers in the field of social and economic history, sociology,
anthropology and economies of South Asia.
This book describes and analyzes the transformation of Indian
economy taking into account historical changes and present dynamics
of the rural-urban nexus. India has recently experienced a period
as a high-performing economy, with the great improvement of indices
of human development, including literacy rates, life expectancy,
child mortality rates and others. In contrast to this bright
outlook, features such as the retarded growth of women's average
height, the noticeable gap between male and female population, the
overwhelming proportion of informal employment in the manufacturing
sector, or increasing pollution overshadow India's future, in some
cases pose a threat to lifestyle and environment. Examining the
rural-urban nexus where the new transformative dynamics of Indian
socio-economy is most conspicuous, the contributors to this book
shed light on the actual changes taking place at the bottom of
Indian society through regional comparisons and spatial
differentiation. The book offers unique perspectives on the topic
produced mostly by Japanese scholars, including analysis of
original data, that have hitherto been unavailable and inaccessible
to an international audience. As the first book published on the
rural-urban nexus in India, this book will be of interest to
researchers studying South Asian History, Economics, Politics,
Geography, Sociology and Anthropology, Development Studies and
Economic History.
This book explores and interrogates the food-water-energy nexus,
arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India's economic
development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in
states across India, including the consequences of electricity
tariff reforms and related policies on irrigated agriculture. A
comprehensive examination of various important issues related to
South Asian agricultural development in the past and in the
present, this book will be a valuable reference for researchers of
Asian development, sustainable development, environmental policy,
South Asian Studies and Development Studies.
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