Development and deprivation in Gujarat / edited by Ghanshyam Shah, Mario Rutten, Hein Streefkerk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breman, Jan.

Shah, Ghanshyam.

Rutten, Mario.

Streefkert, Hein, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial promotion--India--Gujarat.

Industrial promotion.

Capitalism--India--Gujarat.

Capitalism.

Working class--India--Gujarat.

Working class.

Gujarat (India)--Economic conditions.

Gujarat (India).

India--Gujarat.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

345 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2002.

Summary:

Gujarat has been at the center of media attention since March 2002 when a communal frenzy of the worst nature affected the state creating raw tensions between various groups. This timely volume of essays deals primarily with the problem of transformation and of the economy, society and polity of Gujarat. Its relevance is immense in the light of the present political situation.

Contents:

1. Capitalist Development and Jan Breman's Study of the Labouring Class in Gujarat / Ghanshyam Shah, Mario Rutten 17

2. The Contradictions of Growth / Indira Hirway, Piet Terhal 37

3. On the Political Culture of Authoritarianism / Parita Mukta 59

Part II Labour Relations

4. Artisans and the Shaping of Labour Regimes in Urban Gujarat, 1600-1960 / Douglas E. Haynes 77

5. Corporatist Patronage in the Ahmedabad Textile Industry / Sujata Patel 96

6. Landless Labour and Agrarian Change in South Gujarat: The Experiences of Halpati Women / Uma Kothari 115

7. Casualisation of the Workforce: Thirty Years of Industrial Labour in South Gujarat / Hein Streefkerk 133

8. Searching for Space: Workers in the Fringe Sector of Surat / Kiran Desai 150

Part III Encroachments and Assertions

9. Christianity and the Adivasis of Gujarat / David Hardiman 175

10. Development, Deprivation and Discontent: A Case of Dangs Tribals / Satyakam Joshi 196

11. Land Alienation and Adivasi Assertion in Bharuch District / Stany Pinto 214

12. Dalit Assertion for Self-Esteem: From Sambarda to Swamannagar / Harshad Desai, Chandu Maheria 231

13. Globalising Gujarat: Environmental Action in the Legal Arena / Shalini Randeria 249

Part IV Migration

14. Uneven Development and Migration: Insights from Micro Initiatives / Amita Shah 273

15. Rural to Urban Migration and the Significance of Caste: The Case of the Saurashtra Patels of Surat / Miranda Engelshoven 294

16. Twice Migrants and Linkages with Central Gujarat: Patidars in East Africa and Britain / Mario Rutten, Pravin J. Patel 314

Jan Breman: A Bibliography / Mario Rutten 329.

Notes:

"In Honour of Jan Breman."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-341).

ISBN:

0761997253

OCLC:

50401002