Mapping India’s Capitalism: Old and New Regions

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Cover Mapping India’s Capitalism Contents List of Tables, Figures and Maps Tables Figures Maps Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Space and Capitalist Development in Contemporary India Note References 1: Mapping Regions of Agrarian Capitalism in India 1. Introduction – agrarian regions of India 2. The general fate of the region 3. The problem of India’s contemporary agrarian regions 4. Data and methods 5. Maps, regions and their interpretations 5.1. Rent 5.1.1. Percentage of holdings leasing-in land to total operational holdings 5.1.2. The percentage of leased-in land to total operational land 5.2. Petty production and surplus extraction through distribution in market exchange 5.2.1. Percentage of small and marginal farmers to total farmers 5.3. Capitalist surplus value 5.3.1. The percentage of agricultural labourers to total agricultural workers 5.3.2. Investment and commercialisation: (a) cash inputs to agriculture; (b) the percentage of marketable surplus 6. Conclusions: a combined interpretation Acknowledgements Appendix I: NSSO’s agro-climatic regions Notes References 2: Mapping Agro-Ecological Zones in India 1. Introduction 2. Recent debates about economic growth, agriculture, and poverty 3. Mapping agro-ecological zones in India 4. Spatial patterns in rural poverty, agricultural growth, and irrigation development 5. Concluding observations Notes References 3: Uneven Development and Peasant Mobilisations: Perspectives from Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh 1. Introduction 2. Peasant movements in the governance of agriculture 2.1. How to conceptualise peasant movements? 2.2. The analytical framework of governance 3. The trajectory of the two regions 3.1. Western Uttar Pradesh: the Green Revolution nexus 3.2. Chhattisgarh: from ‘rice bowl’ to ‘Genome State’ 4. Modalities of peasant mobilisation: an analysis of ‘nodal points’ 4.1. Farmers movements against ‘globalisation’ 4.2. The Chhattisgarh Seed Satyagraha 5. Conclusion: social movements and divergent development trajectories Notes References 4: Regions and Capitalist Transition in India: Arunachal Pradesh in a Comparative Perspective 1. Introduction 2. Regional specificities 3. The agrarian transition 4. The non-agricultural economy 5. Arunachal Pradesh in globalising India 6. Concluding remarks Acknowledgments Notes References 5: Women and Work in India: Simultaneous Geographies 1. Introduction 2. The Indian workforce profile 3. Differentiated and pervasive labour geographies 4. Geography matters: decoding the spatial hold 5. Concluding remarks Notes References 6: A Spatial Analysis of the Incorporation of Dalits into the Indian Business Economy 1. Introduction 2. The caste system, liberalisation, and economic incorporation 3. Structural factors affecting economic incorporation 4. Spatial analysis: data and methods 4.1. Spatial auto-correlation 4.2. Spatial regression 5. Spatial analysis and findings 5.1. Spatial auto-correlation analysis 5.2. Spatial regression analysis 6. Conclusions Notes References 7: Constructing Spatialised Knowledge about Urban Poverty: (Multiple) Dimensions, Mapping Spaces and Claim-Making in Urban Governance 1. Introduction 2. Mapping urban deprivations 3. Visualising concentrations of deprivations and links to city diversity 4. Constructing spatialised knowledge in urban governance and claim-making 5. Conclusions Acknowledgements Notes References 8: Reciprocity as Regulation: Exploring Methodologies in Urban Design for the Informal Economy of the Historic Pete, Bengaluru, India 1. Introduction 2. A place of ethnic and linguistic diversity 3. What shapes the dynamic nature of the Pete? 3.1. Uneven and combined development 4. The varied architecture of accumulation 4.1. Development control regulations and ground realities 4.2. Plural legal orders and forms of enforcement 4.3. ‘Complicit enforcement’ 5. Urban design for the Pete: reading and mapping the evolution of place a) A series of mappings of the place as a first step, undertaken through primaryand secondary surveys, interviews, and first-hand observations b) Going beyond participatory urban design and planning 6. Conclusion: negotiated rule making Notes References 9: Mapping Territories of Luxury: Spatial and Symbolic Reassertion of Inequality in Indian Cities 1. Introduction 2. The tradition of luxury in Indian cities 3. Urban policies and social inequalities after independence 4. Liberalisation, consumerism, and the new middle class 5. Symbols and realities of luxury in urban Indian families 6. The urban space, where two realities ignore each other 7. The temptation to build fortresses inside the city boundaries 8. Conclusion: towards new types of luxury? Acknowledgements Notes References Conclusion: Lineages of Scholarship – A Conversation with Barbara Harriss-White Index