AGRARIAN POWER AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY #2 Unit Price :$ 3.00 Author :OUP India oup No. Of Pages :51
AGRARIAN POWER AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN SOUTH ASIA:  Productive Power in Agriculture: A Survey of Work on the Local History of British India   DAVID LUDDEN Introduction by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph     Series edited by Meghnad Desai, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and the late Ashok Rudra     ****  eARTICLES FOR DOWNLOAD TO PRINTER ONLY **** [FOR THIS eARTICLE YOU WILL NEED FLASHPLAYER INSTALLED WHICH CAN BE DOWNLOADED FREE VIA OUR HOME PAGE AND ONCE PAYMENT HAS BEEN MADE USE THE PRINT BUTTON ON THE FLASHPAPER TOOLBAR (AND NOT ON THE WEB BROWSER) TO PRINT]   eARTICLE Size: 283 KB;   51 pages; US$ 3   © Oxford University Press, India 1984       Do differences in power structures play an important causal role in advancing or retarding agricultural productivity? In discussing the relationship between power and productivity, the nine contributors to this series anthropologists, economists, political scientists, historians - raise questions about the widely accepted generalization that structures of local power are a major constraint on technically progressive agriculture. By contrast, they argue that there is no necessary relationship between asymmetrical power structures and high or low productivity. Rather, the relationship between power and productivity varies with historical time and region and is determined in part by legal arrangements and their implementation, market opportunities, and how surpluses are allocated. This series is the first product of a unique attempt by the Social Science Research Council (New York) with the support of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (New Delhi) to ask cross-national and multidisciplinary working groups to engage in social science conceptualization and explanation by deploying several national and disciplinary lenses. In their trans-disciplinary and transnational analyses and findings, the contributors display an uncommon capacity to bridge analytical differences and to integrate several theoretical perspectives.   Because agriculture means controlling land, labour, and capital, and because politics in any agrarian society means competing for the fruits of the earth, many historians of South Asia have turned their minds toward the politics of agricultural production. But like count­less little lights pointing into the darkness of rustic ages past, South Asian agrarian history today is less a unified discipline than a galaxy of individual inquiries. To draw conclusions from the literature, therefore, we must first scan the galaxy as a whole, to identify its major constellations, and to probe what holds constellations toge­ther, as well as apart. Having done so, we can proceed to formulate some general and comparative propositions about power and pro­ductivity in the agrarian localities of British India.   DAVID LUDDEN Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia   SUSANNE HOEBER RUDOLPH Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago   Other titles in the series:   Capital and the Transformation of Agrarian Class Systems: Sugar Production in India DONALD W. ATTWOOD   Rural Power Structure and Agricultural Productivity in Eastern India, 1757-1947 B. B. CHAUDHURI   Power and Agrarian Relations: Some Concepts and Measurements MEGHNAD DESAI   Economic Consequences of Local Power Configurations in Rural South Asia RONALD J. HERRING   Local Power and Farm-Level Decision-Making The late ASHOK RUDRA   Determinants and Varieties of Agrarian Mobilization LLOYD I. RUDOLPH SUSANNE HOEBER RUDOLPH   Power Structure and Agricultural Productivity The late SUKHAMOY CHAKRAVARTY
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