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Journal of Agrarian Change
Indian agriculture witnessed unprecedented change in scale and speed in recent decades following ... more Indian agriculture witnessed unprecedented change in scale and speed in recent decades following neoliberal reforms indicating a trend towards urban-industrial-capitalist economy. The trend of this transformation has triggered-off a fresh debate recently on survival of peasantry which is one of the enduring questions in agrarian studies over a period well over a century. While one group of scholars subscribes to the vanishing trend of the peasantry the other group holds the view that peasantry continues to survive in rural India despite the rise of capitalist production in agriculture. Yet another line of argument is that the majority of peasant has already been converted to petty commodity producers. Based on available secondary data the present paper argues that the process of agrarian change in India is quite complex and the trend of this change is not uniform across the states. Though agriculture invariably continues to be the major source of livelihood and employment in the countryside and the rural economy is dominated by small-scale agricultural producers signs of disappearance of peasantry is discernible in many states, particularly in the states experiencing rapid growth in agriculture as well as in industry.
Economic and Political Weekly, 2019
The changes in Odisha’s agriculture made paddy production a losing proposition, especially for th... more The changes in Odisha’s agriculture made paddy production a losing proposition, especially for the small farmers who leased in land. Substantial decline in farm income caused by exploitative land lease arrangements, denial of access to a regulated market, crop failures, increased cost of cultivation, and indebtedness pushed these farmers into severe economic hardship and an inhospitable social environment, which ultimately led to their suicides.
Small Farmers’ Suicide in Odisha, 2019
The changes in Odisha’s agriculture made paddy production a losing proposition, especially for th... more The changes in Odisha’s agriculture made paddy production a losing proposition, especially for the small farmers who leased in land. Substantial decline in farm income caused by exploitative land lease arrangements, denial of access to a regulated market, crop failures,
increased cost of cultivation, and indebtedness pushed these farmers into severe economic hardship and an inhospitable social environment, which ultimately led to their suicides.
Indian agriculture witnessed unprecedented change in scale and speed in recent decades following ... more Indian agriculture witnessed unprecedented change in scale and speed in recent decades following neoliberal reforms indicating a trend towards urban-industrial-capitalist economy. The trend of this transformation has triggered-off a fresh debate recently on survival of peasantry which is one of the enduring questions in agrarian studies over a period well over a century. While one group of scholars subscribes to the vanishing trend of the peasantry the other group holds the view that peasantry continues to survive in rural India despite the rise of capitalist production in agriculture. Yet another line of argument is that the majority of peasant has already been converted to petty commodity producers. Based on available secondary data the present paper argues that the process of agrarian change in India is quite complex and the trend of this change is not uniform across the states. Though agriculture invariably continues to be the major source of livelihood and employment in the countryside and the rural economy is dominated by small-scale agricultural producers signs of disappearance of peasantry is discernible in many states, particularly in the states experiencing rapid growth in agriculture as well as in industry.
Journal of Agrarian Change
Indian agriculture witnessed unprecedented change in scale and speed in recent decades following ... more Indian agriculture witnessed unprecedented change in scale and speed in recent decades following neoliberal reforms indicating a trend towards urban-industrial-capitalist economy. The trend of this transformation has triggered-off a fresh debate recently on survival of peasantry which is one of the enduring questions in agrarian studies over a period well over a century. While one group of scholars subscribes to the vanishing trend of the peasantry the other group holds the view that peasantry continues to survive in rural India despite the rise of capitalist production in agriculture. Yet another line of argument is that the majority of peasant has already been converted to petty commodity producers. Based on available secondary data the present paper argues that the process of agrarian change in India is quite complex and the trend of this change is not uniform across the states. Though agriculture invariably continues to be the major source of livelihood and employment in the countryside and the rural economy is dominated by small-scale agricultural producers signs of disappearance of peasantry is discernible in many states, particularly in the states experiencing rapid growth in agriculture as well as in industry.
Economic and Political Weekly, 2019
The changes in Odisha’s agriculture made paddy production a losing proposition, especially for th... more The changes in Odisha’s agriculture made paddy production a losing proposition, especially for the small farmers who leased in land. Substantial decline in farm income caused by exploitative land lease arrangements, denial of access to a regulated market, crop failures, increased cost of cultivation, and indebtedness pushed these farmers into severe economic hardship and an inhospitable social environment, which ultimately led to their suicides.
Small Farmers’ Suicide in Odisha, 2019
The changes in Odisha’s agriculture made paddy production a losing proposition, especially for th... more The changes in Odisha’s agriculture made paddy production a losing proposition, especially for the small farmers who leased in land. Substantial decline in farm income caused by exploitative land lease arrangements, denial of access to a regulated market, crop failures,
increased cost of cultivation, and indebtedness pushed these farmers into severe economic hardship and an inhospitable social environment, which ultimately led to their suicides.
Indian agriculture witnessed unprecedented change in scale and speed in recent decades following ... more Indian agriculture witnessed unprecedented change in scale and speed in recent decades following neoliberal reforms indicating a trend towards urban-industrial-capitalist economy. The trend of this transformation has triggered-off a fresh debate recently on survival of peasantry which is one of the enduring questions in agrarian studies over a period well over a century. While one group of scholars subscribes to the vanishing trend of the peasantry the other group holds the view that peasantry continues to survive in rural India despite the rise of capitalist production in agriculture. Yet another line of argument is that the majority of peasant has already been converted to petty commodity producers. Based on available secondary data the present paper argues that the process of agrarian change in India is quite complex and the trend of this change is not uniform across the states. Though agriculture invariably continues to be the major source of livelihood and employment in the countryside and the rural economy is dominated by small-scale agricultural producers signs of disappearance of peasantry is discernible in many states, particularly in the states experiencing rapid growth in agriculture as well as in industry.