TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kumar, Richa
AU  - Kumar, Richa
TI  - Rethinking Revolutions : : soyabean, choupals, and the changing countryside in central India
SN  - 9780199465330
U1  - 338.109 KUM 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Delhi, India 
PB  - : Oxford University Press, .
KW  - Economics
KW  - Production
KW  - Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- India -- Malwa (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)
KW  - Agriculture -- Social aspects -- India -- Malwa Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan
KW  - Agriculture and state -- India -- Malwa Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan
KW  - Agriculture and state
KW  - Agriculture -- Social aspects
KW  - India -- Malwa Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan
N1  - Dedication; Acknowledgements; List of Maps; List of Figures; 1. Introduction; 2. Deceptions of Development; 3. Rhetoric of Revolution; 4. Perils of Productivity; 5. Constancy of Crisis; 6. Leveraging labour; 7. Elusive Empowerment; 8. Questions of Quality; 9. Assessing Accountability; 10. Indispensable Intermediaries; 11. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
N2  - An ethnographic study of the processes of agrarian change in the Malwa region of central India, over the last 40 years. It argues that both techno-managerial ways of understanding and evaluating agriculture, as well as those which emphasise the lenses of caste, class and gender, are inadequate in capturing the diverse processes at work in shaping the lives of rural people

ER  -