South Asia

Author(s)

• Alavi, Hamza
• Harriss, John
• Shanin, Teodor

Bibliographic Information

South Asia

edited by Hamza Alavi and John Harriss

（Sociology of "developing societies"）

Macmillan, 1989

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 297-310

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of readings provides an interpretation of the development of contemporary South Asia and covers India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The approach taken is concerned particularly with ways in which class relations are mediated in South Asia and the focus is on ideological and political issues rather than on economic processes. At the same time, the book is intended to signpost and to introduce the wider literature on South Asia and to offer introductory reviews of major areas of debate; over the understanding of caste and ethnicity, interpretation of the impact of colonial capitalist development, analysis of the post-colonial state and trends of economic development and models of political process.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 The colonial transformation: formation of the social structure of South Asia under the impact of colonialism, H.Alavi
• changes in the agrarian economy - Vilayatpur 1848-1968, T.Kessinger
• British India or traditional India - land, caste and power, C.Fuller. Part 2 The political economy of South Asia: agrarian structure, the new technology and class action in India, T.Byres (School of Oriental and African Studies)
• contradictions of agricultural development in Pakistan, A.Hussain (London School of Economics)
• Indian industrialization and the state, J.Harriss
• business and politics in India, S.Kochanek (USA)
• Bangladesh and the world economic system - the crisis of external dependence, R.Sobhan (Bangladesh)
• effects of labour migration from Pakistan, R.Ballard (University of Leeds). Part 3 Ideologies and realities of inequality: the formation of Indian society - ideology and power, J.Harriss
• class, caste and land in India, G.Omvedt
• the disintegration of the Hali system, J.Breman (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
• women, work and property in north India, U.Sharma (Keele University). Part 4 Regionalism and ethnicity: communal riots and labour - Bengal's jute mill-hands in the 1890s, D.Chakrabarty (University of Melbourne)
• India's preferential policies, M.Weiner and M.Katzenstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Bombay-Bhiwandi riots in national perspective, A.A.Engineer (Institute of Islamic Studies, Bombay)
• untouchable! voices of Dalit liberation, B.Joshi (USA)
• politics of ethnicity in India and Pakistan, H.Alavi
• ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka - perceptions and solutions, N.Gunasinghe (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka). Part 5 Classes and popular struggles: workers' politics and mill districts in Bombay between the wars, R.Chandavarkar (Cambridge)
• particularism and scarcity - urban labour markets and social classes, J.Breman
• peasant resistance and revolt in south India, K.Gough (Canada)
• ecology and social movements in India, G.Omvedt.

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• NCID: BA07068334
• ISBN:
  • 0333275578
  • 0333275586
• LCCN: 90125995
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 324 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HN670.3.A8
  • DC19 : 954.05/2
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : South Asia. Social conditions
  • LCSH : South Asia -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : South Asia -- Economic conditions
  • LCSH : Social classes -- South Asia
  • LCSH : South Asia -- Ethnic conditions
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00317226