Table of Contents:
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface, Acknowledgements and Dedication
PART ONE: LONG-TERM CHANGE: 1-1 Introduction: Heavy Agriculture and Light Industry in South Indian Villages
Appendix 1: The Selection of Villages and Sampled Households
Appendix 2: Production Statistics
1-2 Irrigation: The Development of an Agro-Ecological Crisis
1-3 Time and Space: Intervillage Variation in the Nort Arcot Region and Its Dynamics, 1973-95
Appendix: Analysis of Clusters
1-4 Social Stratification and Rural Households
1-5 Labour, Gender Relations and the Rural Economy
1-6 Social Institutions and the Structural Transformation of the Non-Farm Economy
PART TWO: PRODUCTION PPOLICY AND PILLAGE PERSPECTIVES: 2-1 Policy and the Agricultural Development Agenda
2-2 Rural Infrastructure and Local Utilities: Institutions and Access
2-3 Populism and Electricity in Rural Tamil Nadu
2-4 Rural Credit and the Collateral Question
2-5 Fertilizer Reforms and Nutrient Balances
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
PART THREE: SOCIAL WELFARE IN THE VILLAGES: 3-1 Introduction: Village Studies and Welfare
3-2 Antipoverty Policy: Targeting and Screening for Eligibility
Appendix: Deatils of Class Probability Tree Analysis
3-3 Life Chances: Development and Female Disadvantage
3-4 Incapacity and Disability
3-5 Food, Nutrition and the State in Northern Tamil Nadu
Appendix 1: Nutrition Data 1973-4 to 1982-4
Appendix 2: Income, Price and Household Factors in Household-level Calorie Availability, 1994
Appendix 3: The Public Distribution Scheme (PDS)
Appendix 4: Noon Meal Scheme (NMS)
3-6 No End to the Betrayal? Primary Education in Its Social Context: Evidence from Rural Tamil Nadu
Appendix: Summary Statistics for Probit Model Variables
3-7 Socially Inclusive Social Security: Social Assistance in the Villages
3-8 So What for Policy? The Rural Development in a Poor State
Notes
References
Index