Introduction

Agrarian Questions and Left Politics inIndia

Bibliographic Data

ID2285447
AuthorsJens Lerche (0000-0003-3817-7058, Department of Development Studies School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1 0XG, corresponding author), A Shah (0000-0003-1233-6516, Department of Anthropology London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London WC1 2AE, corresponding author), B Harriss-White (0000-0002-7614-1681, Wolfson College Oxford OX26UD, corresponding author), Barbara Harriss‐white (Wolfson College Oxford OX26UD)
Year2013
Volume13
Issue3
Pages337-350
Publication date2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Agrarian Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1471-0358 • E-ISSN: 1471-0366
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/joac.12031
OpenAlexW1849105137
LanguageEN
Citations received30
References cited18

This special issue is concerned with agrarian questions inIndia and their importance for, and impact on, political analyses and strategies of theIndian Left. In the 1970s, the development of Left politics generated the modes of production debate and many of the communist parties used their interpretations of agrarian change then to guide theirIndian path to socialism. More than 40 years on, ongoing changes in economic and social relations in the agrarian sector and in society at large make it important to revisit those earlier debates and conclusions. On the basis of the papers of this special issue, the introduction outlines the development of capitalism in theIndian countryside, its relation to the development of capitalism inIndia and to neoliberal globalization. It raises the question of how rural class relations have developed in different parts of the country and discusses the extent to whichIndian Left politics has analysed and strategized such development

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Capitalism · Communism · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law · Social and Economic Development in India