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Family Farms in Agrarian Literature—A Critique

In: Agrarian Change and Urbanization in Southern India

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  • Seema Purushothaman

    (Azim Premji University)

  • Sheetal Patil

    (Azim Premji University)

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This chapter presents glimpses of the treatment of smallholders in noted agrarian literature. As the notion of the smallholder is multi-dimensional, multi-scalar and also multi-regional, the volume of published work is extensive. Consequently, categorising this body of work is challenging. Yet, we have tried to organise relevant and well known studies in a manner that will be useful while reading the rest of the book. This chapter will uncover the ecological and institutional gaps identified in the previous chapter while trying to unearth pertinent questions that remain unaddressed. This is a selective, chronological review of literature relevant to agrarian dynamics in the backdrop of urbanisation and is not intended to be exhaustive. Most relevant studies on peri-urban interface have been reviewed in our earlier work (Purushothaman et al. 2016). In the interest of brevity, studies relevant for selected peri-urban locations will be taken up during site-specific discussions in the later chapters.

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  • Seema Purushothaman & Sheetal Patil, 2019. "Family Farms in Agrarian Literature—A Critique," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: Agrarian Change and Urbanization in Southern India, chapter 0, pages 25-52, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-10-8336-5_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8336-5_2
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