Peasants on the Move
A Study of Internal Migration in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3544607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aimei Yang (0000-0003-2740-9378, corresponding author), Anand A Yang |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/203300 |
| OpenAlex | W1994881580 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
Peasants are popularly characterized as relatively passive pawns of external forces. In the burgeoning studies literature however the image is now emerging of peasants who do enjoy a degree of decision-making power over their own lives but their options are still limited because they comprise a distinctly subordinate component in the larger agrarian system. This perspective has led not only to a much greater emphasis on the real locus of control in an agrarian society but also to reconsiderations of peasant behavior as is suggested by Liptons notion of the optimizing peasant. This paper stresses the optimizing character of peasants on the move in the Saran district in the northeastern Indian province of Bihar in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In examining this historical phenomenon of internal and especially seasonal migration the focus here is on the adaptations migrating peasants made in their own lives in their communities of origin and in their communities of destination. (excerpt)
Developing country · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Internal migration · Political science · Agricultural Economics and Practices · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Social and Economic Development in India
A “Spirit of Independence” or Lack of Education for the Market ? Freedmen and Asian Indentured Labourers in the Post-emancipation Caribbean, 1834-1917
Indian Indentured Migration and the Forced Labour Debate
Food Scarcity and Migration
Philosophy and Reality in Riparian South Asia
Regional Dependence and Rural Development in Central India
Northeast Migrants in Delhi
Gendered livelihoods
A Matter of Doubt and Uncertainty’
Changing livelihoods at India’s rural–urban transition
Minority women and the experiences of migration
Interaction between Migration and Development
Northeast Migrants in Delhi
Eastward Ho! Leapfrogging and Seasonal Migration in Eastern India
Cosmopolitan Tribals
Caribbean Plantations and Indentured Labour, 1640–1917
Segmented Possibilities
A spirit of independence’ or lack of education for the market? Freedmen and Asian indentured labourers in the post‐emancipation Caribbean, 1834–1917
The Gendering of Identity
Urbanization and social change in rural India
Tax Raj
Towards financial inclusion
Presidential Address
Economic Change and the Railways in North India, 1860-1914
Ethnobotany and animals in Girmitiya diaspora
Conclusion
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2026 (42) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |