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Forty Years of Change in Rural South India

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  • T. Scarlett Epstein

    (Practical Education and Gender Support (PEGS), 5, Viceroy Lodge, Kingsway, HOVE BN3 4RA, England)

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Meant to be a tribute to M. N. Srinivas, this paper presents a longitudinal study of over forty years of the different paths of development of socio-economic changes that were triggered off by the Krishnarajasagar irrigation scheme in two South Indian villages that are situated near each other and are also similar in terms of social composition: Wangala, a village where access to canal water facilitated the growing of sugarcane and paddy as cash crops, and Dalena, where lands remained dry because they lie above the canal levels. In Wangala irrigation has reinforced traditional patron-client relationships and thus resulted in continuing village introversion. To benefit from the regional economic growth resulting from irrigation Dalena villagers had to diversify their activities and seek contacts with the wider economy. This village extroversion led to a breakdown in the social fabric.

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  • T. Scarlett Epstein, 2003. "Forty Years of Change in Rural South India," Journal of Social and Economic Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, vol. 5(1), pages 1-16, January-J.
    • Handle: RePEc:sch:journl:v:5:y:2003:i:1:p:1-16
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    1. V. Anil Kumar, 2006. "Irrigation, Agrarian Change and Local Politics: in South Telengana, 1960-1996," Working Papers id:336, eSocialSciences.

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