Middle India and Urban-Rural Development: Four Decades of Change (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Economic Dynamism of Middle India.- Chapter 2. Local-Global Integration, Diversification and Informality: Long Term Change in Arni During the Late Twentieth Century.- Chapter 3. Arni's Workforce: Segmentation Processes, Labour Market Mobility, Self-Employment and Caste.- Chapter 4. Local Capitalism and the Development of the Rice Economy: 1973-2010.- Chapter 5. A Future Not so Golden: Liberalisation, Mechanisation and Conflict in Arni's Gold Ornaments Cluster.- Chapter 6. The Impact of Caste on Production Relations in Arni: A Gramscian Analysis.- Chapter 7. Technological Change and Innovation in Middle India: The Case of Arni's Silk Cluster.- Chapter 8. The Making and Unmaking of Handloom Silk Weaving in the Arni Region.- Chapter 9. Institutional Change in Informal Credit: Through the Urban-Rural Lens.- Chapter 10. Feeling Rich on an Empty Stomach: Agrarian Crisis and Rural Consumption Choices.- Chapter 11. Epilogue- The future for Small Towns: The Case of Arni - or Ambur or Ranipet or Tiruppur or...?.- Chapter 12. The Arni Studies Bibliography, 1976-2014.