Agrarian Transformation and Commercialisation
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Continuing resourcePublication details: Economic and Political Weekly; 2024Description: 80-88Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: n the mainstream literature, commercialisation of agriculture is studied in a linear fashion as a process of growth of surplus. However, the advance of productive forces that follow commercialisation is also associated with changes in the relations of production and has important distributional implications in the rural economy and society. Through this case study of long-term agrarian change over half a century in a village in Maharashtra, it was found that agrarian differentiation had intensified, intermediated with demographic changes and migration. The share of landless households in the village had increased, and ownership and operational holdings were increasingly concentrated with the dominant caste group. Income and wealth inequalities across classes and caste groups were built on these inequalities in landownership and possession.
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n the mainstream literature, commercialisation of agriculture is studied in a linear fashion as a process of growth of surplus. However, the advance of productive forces that follow commercialisation is also associated with changes in the relations of production and has important distributional implications in the rural economy and society. Through this case study of long-term agrarian change over half a century in a village in Maharashtra, it was found that agrarian differentiation had intensified, intermediated with demographic changes and migration. The share of landless households in the village had increased, and ownership and operational holdings were increasingly concentrated with the dominant caste group. Income and wealth inequalities across classes and caste groups were built on these inequalities in landownership and possession.
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