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agrarian change
Ahmednagar District
Author_D W Attwood
Author_Donald W. Attwood
Bombay Deccan
Bombay Government
Canal Villages
Cane Prices
Cane Supply
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Central Government
Colonial Administration
Commercial Peasants
Cooperative Factories
cooperative farming
Cooperative Sugar
Cooperative Sugar Factories
Dry Villages
economic mobility rural
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Indian sugar factories
industrial capitalists
irrigation systems history
Large Scale Irrigation Canals
Major Marathas
non-Brahman Movement
peasant leaders
political savvy
postcolonial agriculture
rural development
rural development India
Rural Leaders
Satara District
Sharad Pawar
Shetkari Sanghatana
State Cooperative Bank
Sugar Economy
Sugar Factories
sugar industry Maharashtra case study
Tamil Nadu
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367284978
- Weight: 870g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Like any book, this one is part of a dialogue. Over the years, I have asked thousands of questions, of myself and others, and tried to answer some. Out of all this discussion, a written pattern has grown. It is certainly not a definitive pattern. Among those whose words have been woven into it, there are many who might have fashioned it better. There are some who would have selected different colors and textures, or who might have preferred a totally different pattern. I am conscious of their voices and wish that I could adequately present them all. First and foremost are the voices of farmers and other villagers, whose experiences I have tried to understand and represent. A few of them will read this book and decide whether I learned anything from all their patient answers. If they were so inclined, they could tell more about the subject than I ever can.
Donald W. Attwood first visited India in 1966, a time of agricultural crisis and general pessimism concerning the country's future. After a quarter-century of observation (including five years living in India and Nepal), he is impressed by changes that have occurred since the 1960s. In 1969 he began studying the cooperative sugar factories in western India, and he has continued working on this subject ever since. Author of numerous articles and co-editor of several books, Attwood is now completing a two-volume report on cooperatives and rural development in India—the result of a team research project organized with B. S. Baviskar, his Indian mentor and colleague. He has also started research on enterprising peasants and local organizations in Costa Rica. Educated at the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and McGill University in Montreal, where he is now an associate professor of anthropology, Attwood received his first lessons in irrigation, cooperation, and much else at Deep Springs College in California.
