This paper uses the structuralist framework of agriculture-industry synergy in an economy to discuss the performance of the agricultural and industrial sectors in India. The industry - agriculture relationship is argued to be integral to economic development as the agriculture sector supplies...

This study, based on a primary field survey in rural West Bengal, analyses the terms and conditions of the differentiated structure of rural credit with the advent of capitalist agriculture within the interventionist state. The sample households are classified according to the economic classes...

List of tables and figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : a critical look at two decades of market reform in India / Sudipta Bhattacharyya -- Development planning and the interventionist state versus liberalization and the neoliberal state : India, 1989-1996 / Terence J. Byres...

On the basis of a primary field survey, this study analyses the participation of the rural poor in the political and administrative decision-making process and its interdependence on the village-level class structure in the differentiated economy of West Bengal. Despite a process of robust state...