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Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Introductory Rural Sociology: Continuity And Change

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and NPTEL via Swayam

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Syllabus

1. Beteille, A 1965. Caste, Class and Power. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2. Beteille, Andre.1974. Six Essays in Comparative Sociology, New Delhi: OUP
3. Brass, Tom (ed.). 1995. New Farmers' Movements in India. Essex: Frank Cass & Co.
4. Chauhan, Brij.Raj.1974. “Rural Studies: A Trend Report”, in ICSSR (ed) A Survey of Research in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Vol.I, Bombay: Popular Prakashan.
5. Daniel Thorner (1966). The Theory of Peasant Economy, In D Thorner et al (ed) A.V Chayanov.s Theory of Peasant Economy, New Delhi: OUP.
6. Desai A. R. ed. 1978. Rural Sociology in India, Bombay: Popular Prakashan.
7. Desmarais, A.A. 2007: Globalisation and the Power of Peasants. Delhi: Daanish Books.
8. Dhanagare, D N. 1983. Peasant Movements in India 1920-1950, New Delhi.: Oxford University Press,
9. Harris, J. (ed.). 1982. Rural Development. Theories of Peasant Economy and Agrarian Change, Hutchinson: London
10. Joshi P.C. 1976. Land Reforms in India. Delhi: Allied Publisher Ltd.
11. Madan, V. (ed) 2002: The village in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
12. Pai, Sudha. 2010. ‘Farmer’s movements’ in Niraja Gopal Jayal & Pratap Bhanu Mehta (eds.) Politics in India, New Delhi: OUP
13. Patnaik, U. 1987. 1987. Peasant Class Differentiation, New Delhi: OUP.
14. Scott, James C. 1976. The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
15. Shanin, T. 1972. The Awkward Class, Oxford: Oxford University Press
16. Shiva Vandana and Gitanjali Bedi (2002), Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: The Impact of Globalisation, , Sage Publications. New Delhi
17. Shiva, Vandana. 2001. Patents . Myths and Reality. New Delhi: Penguin Books India
18. SinghaRoy. Debal K.. 2005. ‘Peasant Movements in Contemporary India: Emerging Forms of Domination and Resistance’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 40, No. 52 (Dec. 24-30, 2005), pp. 5505-5513.
19. Wolf, Eric R. 1966. Peasant, New York: Prentice Hall.

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Prof. Ashish Saxena

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