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	Development And Deprivation In Gujarat by Shah
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Conceived as a festschrift in honour of Jan Breman, this multidisciplinary volume provides an incisive analysis of various aspects of present-day Gujarati society. By concentrating on the conditions of Dalits, tribals, landless agricultural labourers and industrial workers, the 16 original essays gathered here provide a vivid account of the paradoxes and social consequences of both industrial and agricultural growth.

Table of Contents

Preface
I. INTRODUCTION: Capitalist Development and Jan Breman?s Study of the Labouring Class in Gujarat GHANSHYAM SHAH and MARIO RUTTEN
The Contradictions of Growth INDIRA HIRWAY and PIET TERHAL
On the Political Culture of Authoritarianism PARITA MUKTA
II. LABOUR RELATIONS: Artisans and the Shaping of Labour Regimes in Urban Gujarat, 1600-1960 DOUGLAS E HAYNES
Corporatist Patronage in the Ahmedabad Textile Industry SUJATA PATEL
Landless Labour and Agrarian Change in South Gujarat: The Experiences of Halpati Women UMA KOTHARI
Casualisation of the Workforce: Thirty Years of Industrial Labour in South Gujarat HEIN STREEFKERK
Searching for Space: Workers in the Fringe Sector of Surat KIRAN DESAI
III. ENCROACHMENTS AND ASSERTIONS: Christianity and the Adivasis of Gujarat DAVID HARDIMAN
Development, Deprivation and Discontent: A Case of Dangs Tribals SATYAKAM JOSHI
Land Alienation and Adivasi Assertion in Bharuch District STANY PINTO
Dalit Assertion for Self-Esteem: From Sambarda to Swamannagar HARSHAD DESAI and CHANDU MAHERIA
Globalising Gujarat: Environmental Action in the Legal Arena SHALINI RANDERIA
IV. MIGRATION: Uneven Development and Migration: Insights from Micro Initiatives AMITA SHAH
Rural to Urban Migration and the Significance of Caste: The Case of the Saurashtra Patels of Surat MIRANDA ENGELSHOVEN
Twice Migrants and Linkages with Central Gujarat: Patidars in East Africa and Britain MARIO RUTTEN and PRAVIN J PATEL
Jan Breman: A Bibliography (Compiled by MARIO RUTTEN)ISBN - 9780761997252

Pages : 348